franklyt

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by franklyt 6y ago
I’m not entirely sure you quite get the phrase, unless you feel that the definition of a “static site” is too permissive.
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by franklyt 6y ago
12 people for a static site seems like a huge team to me.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Python got a boost from data analysis in SARS-Cov2. Not convinced that it is an especially powerful and lasting reason.
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by franklyt 6y ago
An unopinionated ecosystem will soon become known a mistake in a similar vein as dynamic typing was.
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by franklyt 6y ago
To me, it seems like the concept of the DOM might be the problem.
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by franklyt 6y ago
The main problem I’m having here is that I can’t think of any JavaScript framework that has solved this problem. Angular is just too cumbersome, though it gets an honorable mention. Perhaps there is so much churn here because the correct wa
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by franklyt 6y ago
ES6 spec for template literals, while not unique as far as I know, has really been the most intuitive method for templating strings that I’ve seen. It’s a bit implicit so it probably wouldn’t work for Python (in this case, % formatting wins
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by franklyt 6y ago
Here’s my general problem with people who profess statements like these: JS, putting aside typing, project structure, etc, simply has a small standard library. At some point, you’re rewriting utility functions that you absolutely should ha
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by franklyt 6y ago
JSDoc doesn't require any transpilation. It runs as native JavaScript code by using comments as type-hints. I can understand not wanting to use TypeScript, kind of, but not using JSDoc as well is honestly mildly negligent, especially w
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by franklyt 6y ago
I think go would be huge if they could ease their pain points. The average developer isn’t interested in why generics are actually not necessary, or “here’s how you can still use generics” stuff. Even if they’re wrong, you still need to wor
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by franklyt 6y ago
Ah, I see your point. But it could just as easily be made in nearly any language, the difference at the level of “is abstract-able” is meters rather than kilometers. The problem is that as soon as you need something more than a command line
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by franklyt 6y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. The notion of there being no sufficient existing language for web development is an interesting one.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I was hoping even less that was the case, feels like a very out of touch comment, but I’m willing to listen.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Are you talking about Haskell? That’s a hard sell.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Ts-check + JSDoc feels great.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Your problem might be that VSC is not an “IDE”, so you’re only going to get the support you ask out of it. Webstorm might suit you better.
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by franklyt 6y ago
If you’re developing a library that people use, it’s not because the bar is “low”. An amateur engineer doesn’t develop popular or useful technology overnight.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Care to share what you think would constitute a “good” lingua franca for the web?
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by franklyt 6y ago
I agree with some of what you're saying. Points of contention: 1. It's not necessarily interesting to point out what JavaScript was as a rebuttal of what it is . This is a genetic fallacy. If you think that some mistakes are
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by franklyt 6y ago
JS isn’t going anywhere.
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by franklyt 6y ago
But I know what an evaluation is, a point is, a degree is, etc. These words contain semantic data.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I don’t know if it’s ironic or not, but as someone not into mathematics, the first example is far more readable, and it’s not close.
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by franklyt 6y ago
One of the things I really hate about golang is the idiomatic usage of single-letter variables. Other than that, and a couple of other quirks, it’s good.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Static site. Can’t really justify spending money on a server just to host a WYSIWYG editor.
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by franklyt 6y ago
He might not be being sarcastic, servers are expensive and every little slice helps, though I think the cdn aspect changes this question somewhat.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Actually, it's called abstraction, as a technical point.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I haven't gone this far, but I still like lodash. It feels like it fleshes out a too-light core JS lib.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Great advice, but I think going for a more mainstream alternative would be a bit more suitable career-wise.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Rails is still great for a project between the sizes of small and large, the former and latter of which will benefit from tools with a lighter touch (like Go), in my opinion.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I’m a huge fan, but I also think that merely leveraging type checking with jsdoc is powerful. It also keeps me more honest because I’m not going through the trouble of typing a parameter or variable just to make it any.

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