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people need to actually learn javascript / the dom etc.. all this indirection (coffeescript / jquery) just dumbs people down, at very least do yourself a favour
by tjholowaychuk 15y ago
people need to actually learn javascript / the dom etc.. all this indirection (coffeescript / jquery) just dumbs people down, at very least do yourself a favour and learn (at least some) of the underlying tech first
- firefoxman1 15y agoThat's very true. I remember when I thought I "knew" JS because I knew the syntax and could use jQuery. Not knowing what we don't know is the worst.
- lucisferre 15y agoThat still isn't a reason not to use jQuery.
- donbronson 15y agoExactly. This comes out when interviewing front-end developers who claim they understand Javascript. Then, when I ask them to do something trivial, they pull out an 80Kb library and need to look up basic documentation to center a DIV. Bah!