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I went to a lunch with Douglas Crockford in London and was lucky enough to be seated next to him. Got to ask lots of questions about what he thought of new JS a

I went to a lunch with Douglas Crockford in London and was lucky enough to be seated next to him. Got to ask lots of questions about what he thought of new JS and he was unequivocal: All the new class shit is a hack by people determined to turn JS into C#. I agree with him. I don't get why people are wasting their time on private class members when features like pattern matching and the pipeline operator are making their way to the surface. Classes are the worst thing to happen to JS.

orangecat 8y ago
All the new class shit is a hack by people determined to turn JS into C#. And that's not a bad thing. As long as JS is effectively mandatory for front end development, it should be approachable and familiar to the widest possible developer audience. I'm hoping for a WebAssembly future where you'll be able to pick your favorite esoteric functional language and have it transparently run in the browser. But until then, it's better for JS to look like C# than Haskell.