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This is not a straw man argument. See sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635929 It would be a
by brlewis 9y ago
This is not a straw man argument. See sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635929
It would be a straw man argument as a reply to the article, but it's a reply to a comment that advocates breaking the JS to make developers use it less.
- acobster 9y agoI think that's a mischaracterization of the comment's argument, despite its perhaps simplistic language. Maybe I'm wrong but given the context the spirit of the argument seems to be "let's load less shitty JS," i.e. less code that does stuff like block on scroll. So in my view the argument is really not about the developer experience at all; it's about encouraging code with concrete benefits for the end-user. Breaking "if" semantics is just inducing chaos to no one's benefit.
- brlewis 9y agoThere is no adjective or other qualifier in the original comment. You're reading it in. If you need more clarity, see the same commenter's "JS is a pox on the web" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15636056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15636056