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Well that is more or less what I meant. The author put most of their emphasis on playful exploration leading to learning an unexpected skill (and the moral of
by naet 3y ago
Well that is more or less what I meant. The author put most of their emphasis on playful exploration leading to learning an unexpected skill (and the moral of the importance of play in learning). On the other hand, the usefulness or ease of use of the JavaScript ecosystem played a big part and maybe the moral could have been that JS is underappreciated and saved the author regardless of their path to learning it.
I don't mean to devalue play or passion projects, that is how I learn most. But JS itself played a big role and I wanted to share my perspective on it.
- saghm 3y agoAh, makes sense. JS and its ecosystem do have a bit of a reputation in the tech community, but I suspect that you're right that even the complaints that have merit might not really matter much to someone not as worried about the finer points of professional software architecture. It's easy as a software engineer to get caught up on something like a giant node_modules folder that we forget that someone looking to write a visualization for their PhD research probably doesn't care at all about that (and rightly so!)