Javascript is such an interesting language, in that it's used practically everywhere, near limitless in potential, small filesize, very powerful, and yet still almost universally reviled.
Javascript code looks ugly. It is the exact opposite of "What You See is What You Get" coding. Everything in Javascript is arcane and convoluted. It's more like ancient runes than modern code. Single function calls can be lines upon lines of drilling down the right class. The tags are all over the place in the HTML and the functions like document.ready and all the dollar signs and curly braces everywhere.
And yet, it's absolutely vital for the glue that holds together the HTML, Ruby, and SQL. Without Javascript, web design would be a field reserved only for Spider-Man.
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