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Everybody thinks they know javascript, but on the contrary nobody actually knows it. It's a very twisted and powerful language. It has many quirks and many unkn

by fsniper 13y ago

Everybody thinks they know javascript, but on the contrary nobody actually knows it. It's a very twisted and powerful language. It has many quirks and many unknowns. Most of the time if one thinks s/he knows javascript, actually s/he knows a higher level abstraction library and DOM built on javascript like Jquery.

polarix 13y ago
Some people do know javascript. Implementations differ, but are getting more standardized as time goes on. Without the DOM and browser environment APIs, it gets a lot simpler. Do you think fewer people actually know javascript than actually know C++?
- 14113 13y ago
  C++ is a bad example. C itself is mindblowinly complex, and C++ layers more on top of that. A better example might be Python, or possibly Lua. Languages that have been designed, rather than grown organically, unlike C++/C/Javascript.
  - naunga 13y ago
    C++ was grown organically? I think Bjarne Stroustrup would disagree.
    - 14113 13y ago
      By that I'd mean the way more and more complexity has been layered on over the years.
- fsniper 13y ago
  Of course some people do know Javascript inside out, but how many?
timmyelliot 13y ago
Yeah, but a basic level of javascript is often all that's necessary. I had quite a few non-developers on my team, who knew enough javascript to have a "good enough" idea what was going on with the code, without having to bug me all the time.