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Yes, and we all know how that turned out with Perl. I don't think Perl is necessarily a good model for readable code. This seems to me to be a case of "just be

by mbreese 11y ago

Yes, and we all know how that turned out with Perl. I don't think Perl is necessarily a good model for readable code. This seems to me to be a case of "just because we can, doesn't mean we should."

toni 11y ago
There are a lot of programmers coming from other functional programming languages to Javascript, bringing a lot of ideas from their own language to "make Javascript better". On top of that, there are also "transpiler folks": Ruby |> CoffeeScript, C#/F# |> TypeScript, etc... The classical Javascript programmer might be the last of a dying breed.