Javascript has the big gay, any good alternatives for a frelancer?

Is the javascript of this site minified?
It might not be well documented but it's still human readable and it the slowness is actually a pro considering how every fucking retard web developer wants to execute his fucking viruses on your machine.

user, there's no way you're going to be able to convince me that a programming language being slow is a good thing.

It's a good thing when you can close the page that randomly opened before you get infected.

Websites should only consist of the page, first party css and media content.
For everything else there are links and other applications.

Yeah trying to reverse engineer a 60K line JavaScript file full of single letter variables and a callback hell 8-levels deep, might as well be fucking machine code.

After doing some more research I believe that Scala & Scala.Js look like the most profitable path forward (along with knowing how to use the React VDOM and component APIs) You can use it for CSS too. Being purely functional, strongly typed, and having a reputation of being more "academic" and "difficult to master" seems to give it natural hipsterfag tranny repellent. With its über Jar packaging, and being able to obfuscate/shrink for serverless or targeting Android looks pretty great.

Fuck you god damn webster!

Scala.Js isn't a Javascript library It transpiles to Js. It actually obviates the need for Js libraries and all of the NPM/Yarn cancer. I was an automation and systems sw dev but unfortunately webdev is a necessary evil as a freelancer to get sheckles. At least with Scala I would have more opportunities targeting the JVM outside of web shit.

developer.ibm.com/code/2018/03/22/ibm-expands-reactive-platform-portfolio-development-accelerator/

Why not learn proper JS and write that?
What for? Mobile shit?

You clearly know nothing about Javascript to ask that question.
I've written a shitton of Node and JQuery and:
1. It's a terrible, bolted together language in general.
2. It's packaging systems are pure aids and riddled with bugs and exploits
3. It's low barrier to entry (easy to learn in a weekend) means it's replete with smug low-IQ wammen, brogrammers, and webfags who write shitty code that you'll ultimately have to deal with - everywhere you go.
4. It has no legitimate purpose outside of the browser - and that only due to its monopoly there
5. Javascript in the browser is cancer

Wut? Do you know anything about the Jvm? I mean sure that's an option, but I'd argue that's just a minority of the use cases. (see the link for one example)

YOU are part of the problem. the people you work with dont fucking matter. you live in a retard muppet society just like any other country. even if they werent SJW they'd still be moron masses. literally 99% of people with any sort of skilled job either think they are important and autistically obsess with retarded details that dont matter, either that or they just dont give a fuck about anything and are just another type of incompetent. you will find this shit regardless of what fucking PL you program in. literally all C code is cancer because the two categories of ppl i just described are behind all the code

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The great cuckening is inescapable in tech. Scala and Haskell are becoming just as joo fucked like everything else.
Some scalafags ejected ScalaZ from the community build over being butthurt over interactions with Tony Morris. Another butt pirate, @jdegoes, left the Scalaz project for the same reason.

Haskell just seems to hate themselves for being white males.
github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/GRC.rst

Do you mean for the frontend or for the backend? For the frontend you don't really have a choice, Javascript is what runs client-side in the browser. For the backend though, can't you just choose literally anything? The reason Node.js is being used on the backend is because webdev hipsters can't be bothered to learn a second language.

You're gonna drown in work OP

Here is an an example of how a big gay looks like pornhub.com/users/stephenlynx
(and yes he does think his NodeJS code can replace Zig Forums)

ANyone done Golang to JS before? What about Python to JS?

Just wait until web assembly matures and then JS is dead.

Ruby and Perl. There is also TypeScript, which is a bit more sane version of JS.

being alive in this timeline hurts so fucking much.

You either program for fun and be elegant about it or you do it for money. Both are not compatible.

Also webdevs are programmers in the same way that the guys warming up your food at MacD are cooks.

50-75% of what people do with JS could be done with plain HTML and CSS. I've only dipped my toes into transpiling to JS , and frankly, it's much more trouble than it's worth. My recommendation is to use plain HTML where you can and JS when you must (like XHR). Frameworks, like Vue are usually overkill. Unless you've got some really complicated state management, then I would discourage using one. And if the state on the front end is super complicated, then you might look for ways to simplify your product (questions like "why are we even doing this" are good).

The real solution, of course, is to make a new kind of browser that doesn't use JS at all and throws all the RFCs and WHATWG shit out the window.

Use fucking forms and the HTML5 video tag when possible.

Server side rendering is still good enough for most web 'apps'.

I watched one of the official Vuejs video introductions and it was just some faggot soynerd that kept giggling obnoxiously like a girl. Kikebook seems to have fixed their shitty license model for React so I don't see it disappearing from the job boards anytime soon.

Perl has become a boomer language
Python hates huwhite men
is Rails still relevant?

I'm working through the CSS3 spec now. Plain HTML/CSS for SPAs with maybe something like Nim (who refused to impl a CoC) for server side stuff seems adequate.

HTML was ultimately just a way of enhancing plain text documents. Sometimes when I see shoehorning HTML and JS into the "SPA" model, I can't help but think, wouldn't we all be better off if the browser was just a sandboxed virtual machine like the JVM and "visiting" a website was just a way to download and run a remote binary? There are so many use cases that HTML is being used for where it makes no sense at all.

Of course many sites are still like tabloids and magazines, where HTML is a very logical medium, but the rest is software that used to be native, but nobody can be bothered to install anything (and most companies won't actually let employees install any discretionary software at all, anyway).

That sounds like how a smalltalk system would have worked IIRC.