[coroutines]

I used to write C but now I do Coffeescript/JS. When I was just starting in C (as a teenager) I'd get really excited to learn the GNU's C standard library. I wanted to know how to make better and better console applications and networking applications. It felt like there was a huge learning curve to using graphics toolkits. Now that I do JS I feel like Web APIs are the new "C standard library". I can make console or apps with a GUI. I can do more because there already exists a large amount of interfaces abstracted over things that would take me a while to learn. At the same time, people are always figuring out new ways to abuse existing web standards for fun and profit - like how page visibility was done before the Visibility API existed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

I like being a JS dev. It's a very fun runtime to poke around... I'd almost prefer all apps to live within the heavily sandboxed browser. It's the best effort made toward portability and it's been a community effort. :x

[sdegutis]

It depends on what kind of programs you like to write. Personally I like to write things like programming languages or VT100-based text editors. And I like the added challenges that C presents, especially related to data modeling, memory management, lack of first-class functions, etc. So C is a natural choice for me, whereas JS adds little to no value, and actually takes away the challenge.

[coroutines]

I hate installing things. :x I get pretty turned on by offering up something like Google Sheets as a webapp that installs and is usable in seconds over the Internet. I used to really love Lua but even though it was <1MB to install people didn't want to download it and then run my script on its interpreter. I remember I made the choice to play in Lua after Python because Python was a large install at the time (60MB for interpreter + standard libs). I honestly feel like the desktop experience is moving into the browser. It's very convenient to "install your runtime" by going to a web address. I love being somewhere near the front lines of that. :3 </zealous-panting>