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I've come to the view that CoffeeScript is the marmite of programming languages, and that issues like this will rage on for years to come. I'd dare and suggest
by paulbjensen 13y ago
I've come to the view that CoffeeScript is the marmite of programming languages, and that issues like this will rage on for years to come.
I'd dare and suggest that TJ is JavaScript's DHH; very talented and productive, but also very vocal about he doesn't like.
Programmers are some of the most argumentative people that I know, my father being one of them. When you're immersed in a community, it becomes easy to develop the kind of language bigotry that happens between Rails and Node.js, which is sad and regrettable.
I think that mature programmers see code for what it is and don't get religious or wound up over these things; in the end of the day it's all a bunch of 1s and 0s.
- pbiggar 13y agoThinking of food analogies: maybe CS is the salt of programming languages. It's not great by itself, it's just slightly nicer than what you were using before. No-one discusses salt by itself, but they see some bland food and know it would be better with some more salt. Some people are addicted, but nobody thinks salt sucks. Except some zealots, but you always try to change the topic when they bring it up. [not to argue analogies, of course; I see what you were going for]
- bostonpete 13y agoWell, I believe our bodies need salt, so eliminating it altogether isn't really an option. Maybe the paprika of programming languages...