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> Is it just me, or is Javascript (and more generally, all front end technology) more susceptible to these trivial holy wars? - Tabs vs spaces. - Vi vs Emacs
by abritinthebay 10y ago
> Is it just me, or is Javascript (and more generally, all front end technology) more susceptible to these trivial holy wars?
- Tabs vs spaces.
- Vi vs Emacs
- Weak vs strong typing
- where to place {} in block statements
- where to put commas
No, programming in general is susceptible to these trivial holy wars.
- nothrabannosir 10y agoWeak vs strong typing is hardly "trivial"... it's the very foundation of a language. Not trying to derail the convo or take sides, but one of these is not like the others ;)
- nitroll 10y agoHardly anyone argues weak vs. strong types, the battle is primarily between dynamic vs static typing.
- gotofritz 10y agoVi vs Emancs? Weak vs strong typing?? tabs vs spaces??? where did you get those?? The ONLY holy war in JS is the semi-colon one
- lmkg 10y agoThat's what OP is saying: programming has plenty of holy wars that predate JavaScript.
- gotofritz 10y agoYou are right, I misread his comment
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- abritinthebay 10y agoClearly you have never encountered the strange "comma first" brigade.
- gotofritz 10y agoAu contraire, for a while I was one of them. But I think we were seen as too weird to even bother with a holy war
- ieatkittens 10y agoThough I don't see why this is a holy war in the first place. Clearly, no-semicolon is the only way to go. :^)
- gotofritz 10y ago[loads machine gun...]
- h1d 10y agoWe have a little more than vi and emacs these days as competition not two sided wars.
- abritinthebay 10y agoSublime vs Atom if you prefer. The point still stands
- Can_Not 10y agoAtom is clearly better until you want to open a file larger than 64 bytes.