Identifying that subset of the language was paradigm shift in JS development. around 2008 when the good parts came out i don’t know any serious JS developers w

Identifying that subset of the language was paradigm shift in JS development. around 2008 when the good parts came out i don’t know any serious JS developers who didn’t take on board many of its lessons. examples: avoiding ‘this’, understanding the value of functions as first class citizens, understanding closures. these weren’t unique to crockford but by presenting them in an accesible plain spoken way he moved the state of the language forward. i do agree that there’s a need to weigh the value of new features vs bloat but id say 1 good feature in ten is pretty poor odds. another example of crockfords pragmatism is JSON which for all its flaws has been a real boon. edit: un-auto correcting “crockpot” :D