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Brendan Eich would say "10 days" whenever one of the big warts from the that are unfixable came up.
by wbl 2y ago
Brendan Eich would say "10 days" whenever one of the big warts from the that are unfixable came up.
- BrendanEich 2y agoThe Mocha prototype was better than what I did after the ten days. The biggest wart, == implicitly converting operand types, came after the ten days and was me being an idiot by agreeing with early inside-Netscape adopter requests for slop. Ryan Dahl gave a speech decades later saying "don't do them" when you are tempted to add little features that might be "cute": https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA?t=900 https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA?t=900. Unfixability is a property of the Web and applies to CSS and HTML as well as JS.