• @fer0n@lemmy.world
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    54 months ago

    I don’t know all of them, but I was talking about React being a framework, not a language.

    • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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      04 months ago

      Hah, I kinda glossed over that one. Not sure what the downvote is about, it’s a joke. JS and PHP are the two I’m most familiar with and they’re scripting languages, not “proper” programming languages. That doesn’t make them any less serious. Anyway, React, being a library for a scripting language, is two steps removed.

      • Doc Avid Mornington
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        24 months ago

        A scripting language is certainly a programming language. In fact, it can be hard to even draw a line at all. PHP is just-in-time compiled, and has static analysis tools that can catch errors that are normally considered “compile-time” - scripting language or no? Is Typescript compiled? Are JVM bytecode and WASM just very low level scripting languages? Can you write a powerful web application using BASH? What even is Lisp, in this context? “Scripting language” is a poor abstraction, really.

      • Agility0971
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        24 months ago

        matlab is considered a programming language but that piece of shit acts more like a scripting language than php

      • Dr. Jenkem
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        4 months ago

        Scripting languages are a subset of programming languages though.