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"JavaScript programmer" term is similar to "vegan" - nobody cares if they only use one programming language for all tasks, but they constantly tell others about

"JavaScript programmer" term is similar to "vegan" - nobody cares if they only use one programming language for all tasks, but they constantly tell others about that. What this article is about? Snippets from SO answers are not as good as battle-tested code? It's obvious and it's same in all languages. You can't find library for any task in tracker you have? Same thing.

vivin 10y ago
> What this article is about? Snippets from SO answers are not as good as battle-tested code? It's obvious and it's same in all languages. It's much harder to ship SO copypasta in say, Java or C#, than in Node. JavaScript is a much easier language to grasp and it is also a lot more forgiving and loose. Combine that with NPM and can suddenly be immensely "productive". But the ability to write and push a lot of code very fast also means that it makes it very easy to write and push a lot of bad code very fast.
- EugeneOZ 10y ago
  It only depends on programmer. Somebody copy-paste from SO to production, somebody write tests and run them before deployment. There is a lot of dynamic ("forgiving") languages, so JS is not unique here.
  - Illniyar 10y ago
    I've seen people change Java code in production to fix a bug and recompile it. This is hardly a behavior that exists only in dynamic languages.
    - vivin 10y ago
      That's a different issue entirely. The article is talking about the quality of frameworks and libraries in JS.
      - Illniyar 10y ago
        Perhaps, but I was replying to the parent comment, which did talk about dynamic languages and copy paste code to production.
  - vivin 10y ago
    This is not about pushing code to production. I don't deny that problem exists in Java. This is about the quality of libraries and frameworks.
  - vivin 10y ago
    This is not about pushing code to production. I don't deny that problem exists in Java. This is about the quality of libraries and frameworks.

vivin 10y ago

> What this article is about? Snippets from SO answers are not as good as battle-tested code? It's obvious and it's same in all languages. It's much harder to ship SO copypasta in say, Java or C#, than in Node. JavaScript is a much easier language to grasp and it is also a lot more forgiving and loose. Combine that with NPM and can suddenly be immensely "productive". But the ability to write and push a lot of code very fast also means that it makes it very easy to write and push a lot of bad code very fast.

EugeneOZ 10y ago
It only depends on programmer. Somebody copy-paste from SO to production, somebody write tests and run them before deployment. There is a lot of dynamic ("forgiving") languages, so JS is not unique here.
- Illniyar 10y ago
  I've seen people change Java code in production to fix a bug and recompile it. This is hardly a behavior that exists only in dynamic languages.
  - vivin 10y ago
    That's a different issue entirely. The article is talking about the quality of frameworks and libraries in JS.
    - Illniyar 10y ago
      Perhaps, but I was replying to the parent comment, which did talk about dynamic languages and copy paste code to production.
- vivin 10y ago
  This is not about pushing code to production. I don't deny that problem exists in Java. This is about the quality of libraries and frameworks.
- vivin 10y ago
  This is not about pushing code to production. I don't deny that problem exists in Java. This is about the quality of libraries and frameworks.