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by horrido 10y ago
The language and IDE are so simple that it takes very little effort to learn, at least, in my experience. But you're right about the class library. However, is this really any different for any OOP language that has a rich class librar
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by horrido 10y ago
I don't understand what you mean. I've only ever gotten one pop-up, if even that. I've never found TechBeacon to be intrusive.
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How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer(techbeacon.com)
115 points by horrido 10y ago|70 comments
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The Five Top Reasons to Use JavaScript(medium.com)
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by horrido 10y ago
You gauge this be looking at complaints on the web. There are numerous posts about how JavaScript programmers abuse the language and don't understand the functional nature of programming. With most of the other FP languages, you hear
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by horrido 10y ago
> There are some big, bold ideas being explored in React, Angular, Om, elm, clojurescript, etc. I'm glad you mentioned ClojureScript. I didn't successfully add this link to my previous comment because ycombinator had a hiccup,
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by horrido 10y ago
Interesting, but it remains to be seen how many businesses will actually use HANA. Until you can identify what percentage of Fortune 500 will use HANA XS with Node , I stand by my statement.
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by horrido 10y ago
> It teaches a way of thinking, and it really doesn't matter much which language is used as long as the basic principles are covered. Nevertheless, schools do not want to teach an inferior language that encourages bad programming ha
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by horrido 10y ago
So who's making arguments without supporting facts? The Hacker Life provides evidence that startups prefer Ruby, C and Python. Fortune 500 companies may use JS for client-facing web UI applications (which are generally not mission-crit
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by horrido 10y ago
Clearly, Node is widely used. It would be silly to deny that. The real question is to what extent is it being used, i.e., is it used to write large, mission-critical systems, is it used beyond developing client-facing web applications (whic
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by horrido 10y ago
Many enterprises are, indeed, using SPA and Node...for the client-facing, non-mission-critical web UI software. These applications tend not to be very large, and on this scale, these tools are usable. But once you get to the really heavy st
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by horrido 10y ago
It was hyperbole . Of course, most of these frameworks are still around, but their popularity waxes and wanes with each new kid on the block (React is the latest).
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by horrido 10y ago
But why did the ecosystem get out of hand so easily? Because the sloppiness of the language encouraged it or made it easy to abuse it. JavaScript's ecosystem is notoriously bad in this respect (cf. with Java or Python or Ruby).
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Is JavaScript the Most Common Language in the World?(medium.com)
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Smalltalk's Proven Productivity(medium.com)
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The Ultimate Programming Language(medium.com)
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Improving Smalltalk's Image(medium.com)
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Why Smalltalk Failed to Dominate the World(medium.com)
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Klaatu Barada Nikto(medium.com)
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by horrido 11y ago
As you pointed out yourself, JavaScript is a poorly designed mess. It may be a "high level" language, but it's also dangerous to use. None of the linters do a perfect job of ferreting out all the problems. In other words, Jav
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by horrido 11y ago
That's like saying if you compile C++ to Intel x86 assembler, you're still programming in assembler. JavaScript is the "assembly language" of the web; compiling (transpiling) to it is not directly programming in it. No
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by horrido 11y ago
MoD411 is referring to "loose typing and freewheeling coercions." This is not about "type safety." It's about having a predictable and reasonable binding of types. JavaScript is very sloppy in this respect, especia
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by horrido 11y ago
The article gives 8 examples of transpiled languages, 4 dynamically typed and 4 statically typed. There's no real preference for static typing, and in fact I'm a big fan of dynamic typing. However, there's a difference betwee
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The Super Surrogates of JavaScript(medium.com)
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The Fall of the House of Node(medium.com)
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The Little Language That Could(medium.com)
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Samson and JavaScript(medium.com)
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Is JavaScript ever the best tool for the job?(medium.com)
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JavaScript's Sword of Damocles(medium.com)
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by horrido 11y ago
My mother died from breast cancer, so yes, cancer is fucking scary. So is JavaScript, which is metastasizing into nearly every other application domain in IT, including the mobile space, the server side, the Internet of Things, video gaming

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