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Javascript is a cancer. But I guess if you can't beat it, might as well learn to love the cancer?

• sctb 8y ago
  You've been breaking the guidelines a lot, but we'd like to hear what you have to say that isn't a flippant and vacuous dismissal, so could you please read start following them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • exitcode00 8y ago
    I think its fairly well known that there are flaws in Javascript which was designed in a week and hows its used (DOM etc). The ease of its use probably lended to initial success, but the difficulty of making complex secure software has led people to reinvent the wheel it seems every 6 months. I don't think having a polluted and bloated ecosystem like NPM is a mark of a success of quality. Just look at what happened when someone deleted their project from NPM - they broke the internet... https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/ https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
    • sctb 8y ago
      That's quite beside the point. Just please don't post things that are predictable, dumb, and mean.
      • exitcode00 8y ago
        That was my revised comment - I have seen the light : )
        • sctb 8y ago
          Ah! Now I have too.