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Most-likely because they don't know what they're talking about. Or because they've made up some quirky, personal definition of "real programming."
Here's how I define "real programming:" writing code in a Turing complete language. People write code in Javascript, and Javascript is Turing complete, so by that definition, Javascript programmers are doing real programming, and Javascript is a real programming language.
I suppose you could define "real programming" as writing code of some arbitrary level of complexity. By that measure, Javascript also passes muster. Of course, there are people writing very simple applications, but there are also people writing very complex ones, such as gmail and google maps. It's not strange nowadays for client-side code to be massively more complex than whatever is happening on the server.
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Most-likely because they don't know what they're talking about. Or because they've made up some quirky, personal definition of "real programming."
Here's how I define "real programming:" writing code in a Turing complete language. People write code in Javascript, and Javascript is Turing complete, so by that definition, Javascript programmers are doing real programming, and Javascript is a real programming language.
I suppose you could define "real programming" as writing code of some arbitrary level of complexity. By that measure, Javascript also passes muster. Of course, there are people writing very simple applications, but there are also people writing very complex ones, such as gmail and google maps. It's not strange nowadays for client-side code to be massively more complex than whatever is happening on the server.
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