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> I don't use js because it is the hot new thing, but rather because it is simple. It infamously isn't. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://w
by yakshaving_jgt 4y ago
> I don't use js because it is the hot new thing, but rather because it is simple.
It infamously isn't.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
- hutzlibu 4y agoHm, video arguments are not my take, I did not watch it (yet), but in either case this seems to be opinion. But of course, javascript is so simple, that it is not suitable for complex problems. No (sane) person would ever claim, that it is the right language for every problem.
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- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoAre you familiar with the No True Scotsman logical fallacy?
- hutzlibu 4y agoYes, but I do not know, what you are trying to tell me.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoI am suggesting that you are making exactly this kind of fallacious argument when you say “No (sane) person would ever claim, that it is the right language for every problem.”
- hutzlibu 4y ago"in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly" This would be the wiki definition. But where is your falsifying counterexample? You mean the video, which says below: "This talk does not represent anyone's actual opinion. For a more serious take on software, try .."?
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoIt's fairly easy to find falsifying counterexamples — it's not such an uncommon opinion. Also I believe the author of the video is clarifying in the statement you quoted that he isn't trying to take a position on the state of the industry.
- Zpalmtree 4y agoMost of these are 'gotchas' that rarely happen in real code because they're all due to implicit type conversions
- AgentME 4y agoYeah, nothing there affects regular programs even a tenth as bad as say quoting rules and space handling affect average Bash shell scripts.
- FeistySkink 4y agoWouldn't shellcheck catch most of these?