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by modarts 11y ago
A slightly...biased perspective?
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by modarts 11y ago
>I think JavaScript is a suboptimal programming language because it has too many features, and on top of that they tacked on yet more features recently. I wouldn't call CSS lousy either, and the API of the DOM even got better over t
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by modarts 11y ago
Why Boot over Leiningen?
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by modarts 11y ago
Have you been to India? You'd understand pretty quickly where that loathing comes from.
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by modarts 11y ago
Had no idea that straight men wearing high heels was a 'thing' until just now...
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by modarts 11y ago
I'll toss my vote in for Flummox; it's the only implementation I've seen that nails Flux at the perfect level of abstraction and even interacts well with es7 language features like async/await to make reasoning about asy
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by modarts 11y ago
>the whole world came knocking on his door That's... a bit of a stretch. How big do you think the market for bingo card generators is?
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by modarts 11y ago
Similar to Multi-level marketing pyramid schemes too
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by modarts 11y ago
It's a sufficiently malleable language where you can express ideas from radically different languages with differing philosophies (FP, OO, immutability etc)
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by modarts 11y ago
Shudder
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by modarts 11y ago
"Don't talk about it: be about it" -Bob Burns
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by modarts 11y ago
Jordan, do you use vim for all of your React development?
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by modarts 11y ago
Why would someone invest in Coffeescript at this point with ES6 + Babel being a highly viable option?
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by modarts 11y ago
Flummox is incredible, and pretty much the first thing I point beginners to after they've learned the basic concepts of flux (I don't even show them Facebook's implementation because it's actually pretty poor and relies
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by modarts 11y ago
How...is this on the front page?
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by modarts 12y ago
Awesome ending
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by modarts 12y ago
OP is James Long, a really well known + awesome and insightful writer and thinker on topics mainly around JS.
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by modarts 12y ago
Like C# (and now ES7's) async/await?
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by modarts 12y ago
Oh man, I love ServiceStack and have built some incredible API's on it. Just wanted to say thanks :)
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by modarts 12y ago
This is shaping up to be even more entertaining than I previously imagined
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by modarts 12y ago
> Can you offer an example of specific situation, in any OO-language with reasonable amount of available libraries, where deep knowledge of design and analysis of algorithms is actually required? Interviews :)
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by modarts 12y ago
This is beautiful and important work. I appreciate the efforts of developers improving the collective productivity of other developers.
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by modarts 12y ago
This comment is incredible. Please expand it into a blog post.
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by modarts 12y ago
Great answer; thanks for the clarification!
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by modarts 12y ago
What's "JSON payload control" exactly?
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by modarts 12y ago
It absolutely is. I'd be interested to hear a counterargument though.
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by modarts 12y ago
Convenient
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by modarts 12y ago
>You don't even have to compile CSS and JS, really, but I guess people aren't comfortable with js or css which isn't machine generated. Fair enough - there are benefits to that, but as general practice, it's needless
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by modarts 12y ago
>Regardless, I think this is an accurate reading of the foreseeable future It's not accurate at all though.
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by modarts 12y ago
You have a very topical understanding of how to structure an app with react then.

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