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It's only on the users page when they are logged in that it doesn't add up. Again not a big issue at all. I can go to another user and their comment counts are correct. So it's only when you're looking at yourself logged in.

@WookieMan thanks for telling me. Maybe I failed to push the new code to the server!

What if you make one more comment? Does that update the count correctly?

Let me check.

Yes, the comment count from users own perspective is correct now. I appreciate your work here. But you've just solved one of the most useless things I've ever requested to be fixed. Kidding aside, thanks.

Happy to help. Tell me more important things to fix too.

Damn, registrations were broken for a week. Fixed now.

Again, not a huge deal and not sure how I didn't catch it when comments weren't counting correctly, but posts don't seem to be adding up either. See screenshot. 5 on the screen and more below. Only 4 counted in my total.

For me, computational physics - python + fortran or C++

Personally I think it's all over and Javascript is coming to everywhere, soon.

It has some flaws, but it's otherwise elegant, very high performance, and has a monopoly on the biggest platform in the world, which is all the browsers in the world.

Patrick says

Personally I think it's all over and Javascript is coming to everywhere, soon.

It has some flaws, but it's otherwise elegant, very high performance, and has a monopoly on the biggest platform in the world, which is all the browsers in the world.

For web stuff for sure. However core backend technologies will stay with strongly typed and better structured languages such as C(#++)/Java/Scala/Erlang/Python/Go. You can't write a massive scalable, safe, and mostly bug-free project in JS. Also multi-threading is cheap today and making a come-back. Also the survey is questionable as SQL and HTML are choices next to major programming languages. I would expect JS to be first since it is used heavily in front and back-end and even in some middle-ware. If you were only talking backend-technologies it would not be at the top.

mell says

strongly typed and better structured languages

@mell You can always use https://flow.org/ to have strong types in Javascript, or assert() the typeof parameters at the beginning of each function.

For structure, yes, callbacks make code very hard to follow, but now that Javascript has async/await, you can write code that looks procedural. It's great and I use it all the time.

Patrick says

mell says

strongly typed and better structured languages

@mell You can always use https://flow.org/ to have strong types in Javascript, or assert() the typeof parameters at the beginning of each function.

For structure, yes, callbacks make code very hard to follow, but now that Javascript has async/await, you can write code that looks procedural. It's great and I use it all the time.

Love async/await would not touch JS without it. Still stuff like flow or coffee feel like crutches. I would avoid it for very larger and non-web projects, for small to medium web-projects it's great.