Way back when, I in fact used to do personal projects in Clipper.
I am old enough to have experienced Clipper as one of the new kids in town. 
And, equally long ago, I did some projects in Turbo Basic, C and assembler.
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Good Heavens! I remember Clipper. Not fondly. What a cursed thing that was. Back in the day, all the crappy programmers wrote crappy software in Clipper. It was like JavaScript nowadays – very popular, and just awful. It was used for stuff like POS and databases, library catalogues, etc… It was slow, unreliable and profoundly ugly. It had that Curses feel. I think I hate Ncurses nowadays mostly because it reminds me of software in Clipper. My dad hated it, too, he had many more encounters with it than I, as I was quite young back then. Of course, my dad programmed only in C, but he had to support customers who had software somebody else wrote in Clipper.
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I’m sorry for reminding you of this nightmarish language.
No need to be sorry, I can handle it. It wasn’t worse than JavaScript is today. 
Frogs, clipper and JavaScript in one screenshot.
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Rust is the new JavaScript.
Goddamn…now i don’t want to switch to Rust anymore!!
I don’t usually watch videos but this was short and I was curious. Usually, it is a waste of time but this time, I learned something.
Apparently, JS developers don’t understand basic programming concepts…
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Wait, somehow you didn’t know that?!
If they did, they wouldn’t be using JS.
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Yeah, only soydev or an absolute 
would be using javascript…
or Rust…
Typescript is the better JavaScript. This definitely makes programming more fun than JS.
I would be tempted to say: “Anything is better than JavaScript,” but TypeScript is so awful, that I can’t really make up my mind which is worse. TypeScript is literally M$-JavaScript. It’s as awful as any other M$ technology, like: VBScript, .net framework, or C#, only it’s JavaScript, which in itself is awful, so…