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Aye, perhaps it's my perception then, because I've been seeing lots of awesome code out there recently. There used to be a few exciting JS projects, though many

by k3n 14y ago

Aye, perhaps it's my perception then, because I've been seeing lots of awesome code out there recently. There used to be a few exciting JS projects, though many of them were redundant in some ways, and they were still fairly basic by today's standards. Today, though, it seems like a fun new project pops up monthly. I won't argue that there isn't still a ton of education that needs to happen! I've been battling this at work, as few candidates have much JS experience at all (I think all of the good ones are involved in the hot projects). I'd also concede that educating future coders is possibly not only more important, but more fulfilling. I've been following your blog for awhile, and though I do miss the geeky JS topics such as the precision (or lack thereof) of setInterval/setTimeout, how great documentFragment's are, etc. I've also enjoyed the posts about Kahn.

bwship 14y ago
I agree, I used to get excited about just jquery plugins. But noe using node.js and ember.js makes me almost not want to code in anything else. (Except for objective-c for ios and java for android) It is just amazing to see how much it has exploded in the last few years. Serverside js and client side mvc will keep me excited at least for another year.
jeresig 14y ago
I think it's an issue of there being a bell curve on all the JavaScript users. If we assume that 80% of JS users are in the "use a library and know very little of the language" category and the top 10% is "publishes libraries/tools" and the bottom 10% is "copies-and-pastes code with reckless abandon" - then going from 1 million JS users in 2008 to 4 million now (theoretical) then there will be 4x more awesome libraries and 4x more ignorant users. Thank you for the kind works regarding my blog - I really hope to begin writing again. Perhaps that'll make for a good new years resolution :)
reybango 14y ago
Definitely more awesome code out there but I think you're seeing that from a VERY vocal minority of developers who are 1) very vested in the OSS community, 2) love to share code and 3) are pushing to get the most out of JavaScript. As I think John eluded to, there's a number of developers that don't fall into any of these buckets and a book like this would certainly be useful to them. I was with John on the jQuery team and I know that I'll be picking up a copy of this since I'm sure I'll find some nugget of awesomeness in there that will make it worth the price.

by k3n 14y ago

bwship 14y ago

I agree, I used to get excited about just jquery plugins. But noe using node.js and ember.js makes me almost not want to code in anything else. (Except for objective-c for ios and java for android) It is just amazing to see how much it has exploded in the last few years. Serverside js and client side mvc will keep me excited at least for another year.

jeresig 14y ago

I think it's an issue of there being a bell curve on all the JavaScript users. If we assume that 80% of JS users are in the "use a library and know very little of the language" category and the top 10% is "publishes libraries/tools" and the bottom 10% is "copies-and-pastes code with reckless abandon" - then going from 1 million JS users in 2008 to 4 million now (theoretical) then there will be 4x more awesome libraries and 4x more ignorant users. Thank you for the kind works regarding my blog - I really hope to begin writing again. Perhaps that'll make for a good new years resolution :)

reybango 14y ago

Definitely more awesome code out there but I think you're seeing that from a VERY vocal minority of developers who are 1) very vested in the OSS community, 2) love to share code and 3) are pushing to get the most out of JavaScript. As I think John eluded to, there's a number of developers that don't fall into any of these buckets and a book like this would certainly be useful to them. I was with John on the jQuery team and I know that I'll be picking up a copy of this since I'm sure I'll find some nugget of awesomeness in there that will make it worth the price.