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Pros of Avro
Pros of JavaScript
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    • 1.7K
      Can be used on frontend/backend
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      It's everywhere
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      Lots of great frameworks
    • 898
      Fast
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      Light weight
    • 425
      Flexible
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      You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
    • 286
      Non-blocking i/o
    • 237
      Ubiquitousness
    • 191
      Expressive
    • 55
      Extended functionality to web pages
    • 49
      Relatively easy language
    • 46
      Executed on the client side
    • 30
      Relatively fast to the end user
    • 25
      Pure Javascript
    • 21
      Functional programming
    • 15
      Async
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      Full-stack
    • 12
      Setup is easy
    • 12
      Future Language of The Web
    • 12
      Its everywhere
    • 11
      Because I love functions
    • 11
      JavaScript is the New PHP
    • 10
      Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
    • 9
      Expansive community
    • 9
      Everyone use it
    • 9
      Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
    • 9
      Easy
    • 8
      Most Popular Language in the World
    • 8
      Powerful
    • 8
      Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
    • 8
      For the good parts
    • 8
      No need to use PHP
    • 8
      Easy to hire developers
    • 7
      Agile, packages simple to use
    • 7
      Love-hate relationship
    • 7
      Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
    • 7
      Evolution of C
    • 7
      It's fun
    • 7
      Hard not to use
    • 7
      Versitile
    • 7
      Its fun and fast
    • 7
      Nice
    • 7
      Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
    • 7
      Supports lambdas and closures
    • 6
      It let's me use Babel & Typescript
    • 6
      Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
    • 6
      1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
    • 6
      Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
    • 6
      Easy to make something
    • 5
      Clojurescript
    • 5
      Promise relationship
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      Stockholm Syndrome
    • 5
      Function expressions are useful for callbacks
    • 5
      Scope manipulation
    • 5
      Everywhere
    • 5
      Client processing
    • 5
      What to add
    • 4
      Because it is so simple and lightweight
    • 4
      Only Programming language on browser
    • 1
      Test
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      Hard to learn
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      Test2
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      Not the best
    • 1
      Easy to understand
    • 1
      Subskill #4
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      Easy to learn
    • 0
      Hard 彤

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    Cons of Avro
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        A constant moving target, too much churn
      • 20
        Horribly inconsistent
      • 15
        Javascript is the New PHP
      • 9
        No ability to monitor memory utilitization
      • 8
        Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
      • 7
        Thinks strange results are better than errors
      • 6
        Can be ugly
      • 3
        No GitHub
      • 2
        Slow
      • 0
        HORRIBLE DOCUMENTS, faulty code, repo has bugs

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      What is Avro?

      It is a row-oriented remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format.

      What is JavaScript?

      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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