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JavaScript prior to ES6 was "old" and obsolete and hated. Building JS objects pre-classes is pretty terrible (to say nothing of the .bind(this) that is spammed
by kllrnohj 8y ago
JavaScript prior to ES6 was "old" and obsolete and hated. Building JS objects pre-classes is pretty terrible (to say nothing of the .bind(this) that is spammed everywhere without the => operator)
JS has improved massively over the last few years, it's very nearly an entirely different language than what it used to be.
There's a reason everyone was desperate to avoid writing JS not all that long ago be it the form of coffeescript, silverlight, flash, or GWT. ES5 JS sucks. Like... a lot.
- lgunsch 8y agoInteresting. I haven't touched, or even read, any JavaScript since well before ES6 arrived. I suppose I don't really know the language if it's changed so much (I've never even heard of JavaScript classes). I jumped on the JavaScript hater train and left the station.
- avarun 8y ago>I jumped on the JavaScript hater train and left the station. As does most of Hacker News with every technology they hate on.