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JavaScript used to be easy to get into (and I suppose technically still is) but the old days of open a console and type in some code or put a src file at the to
by mythrwy 5y ago
JavaScript used to be easy to get into (and I suppose technically still is) but the old days of open a console and type in some code or put a src file at the top of the HTML page seem to be gone for most practical and production purposes. Now it's typescript and webpack and a 200 hour course to get started with React. And big teams tripping over each other making components.
The funny thing is, I don't know that the resulting product is really much better.
- rglover 5y agoYes. What you describe is where I started out and I watched it devolve over the last 15 or so years (why I decided to take a swing at building Joystick—it was getting too ridiculous to keep entertaining). I think so many started out in the chaos that they don’t know what the “before time” was like and don’t have perspective on how complex it’s gotten (it’s just normal to them).