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I ran into this article a little while ago and I had a similar sentiment. I get the point staltz is making but it felt pedantic and heavy handed, hell you can i
by wldcordeiro 10y ago
I ran into this article a little while ago and I had a similar sentiment. I get the point staltz is making but it felt pedantic and heavy handed, hell you can ignore JavaScript entirely and the same is true for just about every programming language. Seems that there is a trend towards ideology in the JavaScript community lately that bothers me. People obsess over pure functions and FRP and talk so highly about these things like mutation and non-FRP are the worst things on the planet when it comes to code.
- oldmanjay 10y agoThe trouble with trying to apply words like "community" to millions upon millions of people with basically nothing but a surface connection (like they all have used javascript, for instance) is explained nicely in Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"
- philh 10y ago"The JavaScript community" need not include everyone who has used javascript. Why do you assume GP was intending it to do so?
- oldmanjay 10y agoI made only one assumption - that "the JavaScript community" is a granfalloon. Any further assumptions you assume I made are not valid.
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