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If "JavaScript just needs to become a better language" is it wise at this point to really be trying to use it for every possible thing? JavaScript has its place
by 20years 11y ago
If "JavaScript just needs to become a better language" is it wise at this point to really be trying to use it for every possible thing? JavaScript has its place and building a web app without it today is very rare but I don't understand why so many are trying to depend on it for so many things that it's not intended for or at least ready for.
"I see us JavaScript developers as hurdle-runners where every 30 seconds we need to jump over a new obstacle."
That's not a good thing imo.
- pdimitar 11y agoWhen you want to build web apps, you have to stich together HTML and CSS. That's intrinsically text processing. To not have a check if one string includes another and/or to not have functions for padding is strange in 2016. Fine, let's not have it inside the language. But the dev community should at least agree to use one good package like lodash instead of playing "mine is better than yours" like in the damned highschool. This is a job where people make money and business decisions are made. The tech bros need to learn some professionalism. ES6 has a bunch of "modern" features 1/3 of which I won't ever use but hell, the committee be damned if they allow string padding functions! :D Or God forbid they make a good use of "use strict" to make the language more predictable and eliminate most of its quirks in it.