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Javascript has always been a turd. Actually the whole front end including CSS and dealing with browser incompatibilities is a turd. The people who work with th
by nickthemagicman 10y ago
Javascript has always been a turd. Actually the whole front end including CSS and dealing with browser incompatibilities is a turd. The people who work with this have lots of grit, determination, and genius in my book.
Brendan Eich has more or less apologized for JS and said it was written in 10 days meant to do things like make text flash.
The goal of front end has always been "this feature sucks less than before!"
Wow a let variable to fix scope! Arrow operators to dekludgify callbacks!
Lol CLASSES WOW is this heaven?
Web Assembly is my hope for getting rid of opinionated langs in the browser and allow in langs built on decades of experience, which will make front end reasonable like the rest of the sodtware world
- sAbakumoff 10y agoThat's interesting that the general tone of HN comments drastically differs from that of reddit replies where guys furiously protect ES6 and stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5d9v3k/es6_is_great_until_its_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5d9v3k/es6_is_g...