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layout: meetup
title: Why people hate Javascript
author: lingram
when: 2019-02-19T19:30:00-06:00
speakers:
  - name: John Fawcett
    title: Full-stack Engineer at [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/)
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/567799871210401792/JHcg7zYh_400x400.jpeg
    bio: John loves JavaScript.
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: johndotawesome
    github: jrf0110
    linkedin:
sponsor: indeed
venue: spredfast
after: lavaca
organizers:
  - lingram
  - astacy
---

Why do some people hate JavaScript while others bask in its glory? In [Stack Overflow's 2018 Survey](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/) of over 100,000 developers; JavaScript, HTML, and CSS rank as the _top three_ most used technologies, with 70% of developers stating that they use JavaScript. Next in the list is SQL with 57%.

Not everyone is an expert front-end developer, but it seems that most people at least have to dip their toes.

If you hate JavaScript, I'm going to _finally_ articulate why you _know in your heart_ that this is such a terrible language. For you JavaScript lovers out there, hopefully this sheds some light on why your language of choice is such a steaming pile of 💩.

Let's talk about what we can do about it.
