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.

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I'm not always doing exactly as I'm told, I've been teaching myself C and Scheme lately (which is kind of hipster i guess) but sometimes I have these little episodes where I worry about my future employment prospects and trying to fit in the mainstream.

I've been trying to do ok in university which I think is reasonable since lots of jobs expect CS degrees. although I have met self-taught some people with great programming jobs without any kind of high education, including within some big-name computing companies.

maybe when i'm done with my first year or so of CS i can start to have the skills needed to do research. apparently one has to focus on some specific domain, e.g. compilers. I guess the trick is to read lots of papers then try to come up with soemthing that improves on them ? Or do you mean like working doing grunt work for researchers so I can try to work my way up the ``totem pole'' ?

Anyway thanks for your input, and sorry if I'm confused.