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That is because it is NOT written in JavaScript. I have written JS since 1997 and kept up with ES6 and so on over the years. Used it in frontend until now. Th

by fn1 6y ago

That is because it is NOT written in JavaScript. I have written JS since 1997 and kept up with ES6 and so on over the years. Used it in frontend until now. The JavaScript-ecosystem just isn't very productive [1] for multiple reasons. The language is untyped. You have no multi-threading. It's hard to debug. You have to spend many brain-cycles on learning Browser-problems, which muddles your understanding of the language. The web-way of: we can fix it and everyone will reload the browser, leads to a "don't care" attitude. For web/backend this is approachable, though still not good. For build-systems this is terrible. Why? Because if a bug shows up in a build-system you stop a million developers from being productive. The bug won't get fixed right away, most will just work around it, use different plugins, copy/paste yet another webpack config etc. Plus JavaScript tends makes people realized what FP is, and they all start putting functions in their functions and making everything modular and plugin-able. (See high-order-components in React). While this can be nice, it leads to even more confusing bugs. Writing plugin-architectures is hard in any language. Writing it in JavaScript is a recipe for disaster. Hence the modern JS-ecosystem. [1] Google: nullpointerexception -> 4.360.000 results Google: undefined is not a function -> 800.000.000 results

eurleif 6y ago
> Google: nullpointerexception -> 4.360.000 results > Google: undefined is not a function -> 800.000.000 results You didn't put quotation marks around the second, and the first has no spaces, so this is not a fair comparison. "undefined is not a function" with the quotation marks has 449,000 results.
- fn1 6y ago
  Right, thank you.
- dimitropoulos 6y ago
  see above, but this basically this is inaccurate. I don't doubt that there are many results for "undefined is not a function", but I feel quite confident saying there aren't anywhere near 449,000. If you ask google for just 111 of them, you'll get "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 110 already displayed."
dimitropoulos 6y ago
please please please do not use google's results as an indication of really anything at all. Don't take my word for it, do this test: search something, like the name of someone you know that's not famous. You'll find that google will reports tens of thousands (or millions! lol) of results. But click through 10 or 15 pages. You'll soon find that many of the pages have almost nothing at all to do with what you searched (and may not even contain any word from the phrase!), but that if you get far enough, maybe 300 results or so in, you'll see that when google runs out of results it will magically just update to show the real number, which is often just a few dozen for a search like the one I described.

by fn1 6y ago

eurleif 6y ago

> Google: nullpointerexception -> 4.360.000 results > Google: undefined is not a function -> 800.000.000 results You didn't put quotation marks around the second, and the first has no spaces, so this is not a fair comparison. "undefined is not a function" with the quotation marks has 449,000 results.

fn1 6y ago
Right, thank you.
dimitropoulos 6y ago
see above, but this basically this is inaccurate. I don't doubt that there are many results for "undefined is not a function", but I feel quite confident saying there aren't anywhere near 449,000. If you ask google for just 111 of them, you'll get "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 110 already displayed."

dimitropoulos 6y ago

please please please do not use google's results as an indication of really anything at all. Don't take my word for it, do this test: search something, like the name of someone you know that's not famous. You'll find that google will reports tens of thousands (or millions! lol) of results. But click through 10 or 15 pages. You'll soon find that many of the pages have almost nothing at all to do with what you searched (and may not even contain any word from the phrase!), but that if you get far enough, maybe 300 results or so in, you'll see that when google runs out of results it will magically just update to show the real number, which is often just a few dozen for a search like the one I described.