halftrolling

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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   As my name implies - I’m half-serious in my sentiment. I’ve found many-to-most projects I’ve come across have personally-inconsistent conventions at a function level not to mention strategic architecture. There is good code from other - but
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   At 15+ years of coding, I feel the greatest issue jumping across projects I’ve done (of a recent vintage) is getting into the paradigm. I have a differing framework to an SPA, to an API, and to personal utility scripts. Amplified by adding
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   For Angular, I think the “problem” lies in the level of abstraction. AngularJS was a “Spring / Java” answer to web applications with Angular following the paradigm but introducing reactivity to the system. Not “wrong” per-se, the quali
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   Briefly used Polly at $OLDJOB and it has “Java” library vibes for me. Being on Node at work these days, I wish more libraries carried this quality.
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   Was reading it the other day for shiggles. I’ll second you and say “it still is.”
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   The Java standard library will forever be my baseline for “good.” Perhaps the C# beats it, but then the overall ecosystem of third-party libraries is such that it isn’t worth the slight improvements in design. Node, by comparison, is a ghet
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   by halftrolling 4y ago

   My own - hell is other people’s code.