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I won’t say someone is good at programming if he/she cannot learn JavaScript in two weeks

• nicoburns 5y ago
  Perhaps not in a general sense. But that they were certainly good enough at C++ that my employer was quite happy with their performance at those tasks. They just weren't very good at translating that to areas they were less familiar with.
• jiggawatts 5y ago
  I agree, you'd have to be a pretty bad programmer if you can't wrap your head around JavaScript in a couple of weeks. TypeScript even. Also, React. Babel. Grunt. Gulp. NPM. Node. Cobertura. Comfey. JQuery. Angular. Vue. Bootstrap. Flutter. Mocha. Minior. Yarn. Leftpad. Webpack. Npx. JSON. Rest. CORS. XMLHttpRequest. WebSockets. Web Storage. IndexDB. Actually, I think some of those might be Pokemon.
  • brimble 5y ago
    I've never had the experience that learning a language is harder than learning the culture and (usually bad) tools around it. Stuff like "oh no, I know the official docs say that, but no one does it that way" or "this tool is a 'hip, faster, drop-in replacement' and you'll see it recommended everywhere but the last part is actaully a lie" or "the platform says it supports this language but actually the tools are so broken that it effectively does not" et c. [EDIT] I had in mind Android, Yarn, and AWS Lambda + Java (as of a couple years ago, anyway), in order, for those examples, for the curious :-)