javascript

javascript is absurdly bad.

you visit some small site and bam! you've already downloaded 2MB of "libraries" like jQuery that waste your CPU cycles for some syntax sugar bullshit created because javascript is shit to begin with.

web apps like google docs are slow and have poor user interfaces.

javascript has been wasting millions of CPUs cycles every hour of every day with its inefficient bullshit.

and now it's considered a mandatory "technology" for programmers.

please tell me I won't have to use javascript if I want to get into the computing business. I'm too young and enthusiastic to dare envision such madness.

>>36
Because C++ is just inane for smallish programs, and smallish programs are what most people write. Also, the network effects of Unix and Unix-like systems that favor smallish programs are huge.

>>37
I think C++ is favored over C for big codebases because big codebases demand the sort of enforced organization that C++ OO constructs can provide. You certainly can do OO, RAII etc. in C but there a benefit to having a standard implementation provided by the language itself, because then there is only one implementation that needs to be learned. Compare how many people "know" C++ to how many know GObject, for example.