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since almost everybody I encounter here agrees that Javascript sucks, What should I learn to make good "web apps" with good performance ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here sucks is in the sense of suckless philosophy, I don't think everybody likes the suckless movement but I've seen that many people, me included, don't like how modern web apps look like (messenger and tiktok are like the worst). So if I want to make interactive web apps, what are the better technologies to not make the web shittier ?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

JavaScript doesn't suck and it's performance is more than adequate for most applications. If you are doing some serious number crunching you might want to look at web assembly, but last time I checked it doesn't actually have access to the DOM so it's not really got any control over the page itself.

JavaScript is great. Typescript is better. Give JavaScript a go and if you want more safety try typescript.

I personally use the Vue framework for my web apps but there are many others out there, and if you really want to keep things clean you can opt out of using Frameworks altogether.

Anyway, you are never going to be able to completely avoid JavaScript no matter what approach you take, so if suggest learning some and making up your own mind