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> What hadn't occurred to me at the time is that C# is a very verbose language which Visual Studio beautifully automates away the tedious parts of. This online IDE automated nothing.

That's pretty much why I use Javascript in interviews

Writing on the board or in an online IDE

Its just the gaslighting is annoying, in most contexts that's called toxic. "We don't care which language you use .... ooooh you used Javascript we code in this other thing"



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