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meta: it would be good if not every thread on HN about javascript devolved into unproductive complaining about how bad you think it is. It's really not interest
by ZenPsycho 9y ago
meta: it would be good if not every thread on HN about javascript devolved into unproductive complaining about how bad you think it is. It's really not interesting or enlightening to read, and javascript's various flaws are already thoroughly covered elsewhere.
- dboreham 9y agoDon't forget the threads on HN about Git that descend quickly into a celebration of how much Git sucks. But contrary to your thinking, I see these consistent regular events as a deeply worrying symptom that somehow as an industry we have managed to wind back progress over the past decade and end up using a pile of sucky stuff.
- ZenPsycho 9y agoI see it more as a worrying symptom that software as an industry is full of people who complain about things they don't understand and don't want to learn about. the complaining about javascript is very HN culture specific. there are certainly places where people do complain about it, but only here is it indulged again and again and again ad nauseum. there certainly is room in the world for recognising the flaws in javascript or git and working to fix them, or building something better. but just whining about how bad it is achieves nothing and it is irritating to read.
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