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Not to be pedantic, but if you have a 5k line JS app that "wasn't written by programmers" who was it written by? If they wrote and shipped a 5k line JS app, in
by lghh 9y ago
Not to be pedantic, but if you have a 5k line JS app that "wasn't written by programmers" who was it written by? If they wrote and shipped a 5k line JS app, in my eyes they are programmers - but possibly not very good ones.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoWell, they weren't professional programmers (not their main job, done out of necessity) and they weren't trained. As I understand it they were actually learning it all on the go (like a lot of new programmers). It wouldn't be shocking if a lot of JS devs were in a similar boat, which explains the community a little bit. So yeah, they're programmers now, but they didn't start out that way and the app showed it. That's what JS and the browser allowed them to do.
- mod 9y agoSo experienced devs are afraid of learning something that took non-programmers a week to get up to speed and develop a well-architechted app with reusable components etc? I don't buy that, not for a second.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoThat's not what happened. We had a set of non-programmers who built a complex jQuery app over a year, which was then translated into a Mithril app over a summer. What I said was you can be building complex applications in one of these frontend frameworks in a week. Judging from a few responses in this thread, there are a lot of people who don't want to do that for whatever reason.