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1. Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing is everything that they could come up with in the last 5 years. Private fields in javascript. God please what is wro
by typeengineering 6y ago
1. Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing is everything that they could come up with in the last 5 years. Private fields in javascript. God please what is wrong with these people.
2. If you look at resources, you have css-tricks as n1. Clearly there's very little number of Software Engineers / Computer Scientists in the JS world which doesn't have to be because if you're skilled you can take massive advantage of the cool prototypal programming language like JS. yet I bet 95% of the JS "community" hasn't even got a clue what a prototype is.
3. Additionally, you can see how the tools are skewed towards react/webpack but server-side JS can be just as powerful, yet there isn't much innovation in there. So that confirms the previous 2 points that the "state" of javascript, is just a homogeneous webpack/typescript bunch of people who think the exactly same.
There are so many real engineers who work with proper programming languages, and they get terrified when they see the "state" of javascript and curse it. I've worked with JS for the past 5 years and I don't blame them. There hasn't been a professional approach to software development in the JS world, everyone's obsessed with their tools instead of applying skill. But I'll change it this year. If you're a back-end engineer looking for a simple, yet very powerful solution to build your js/widgets, you'll get it soon. not free thank you.
- erikpukinskis 6y agoThis seems unnecessarily mean and dismissive. I have a software engineering degree, have been doing professional software engineering for 20 years and I love JavaScript. There are lots of things I dislike that are written in JavaScript or for JavaScript developers but I like the language. What are you trying to get out of insulting people like me? Are you trying to get us to come seek you out as a teacher? Do you want us to feel ashamed of out careers and realize we need to go back to school?