How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
Wes Garland
wes at page.ca
Thu Nov 16 15:08:02 UTC 2017
On 27 October 2017 at 01:48, kai zhu <kaizhu256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> es6 is essentially javascript++, like c/c++. you can't expect senior
> c programmers to trivially transition projects to c++, or for existing
> c toolings to automatically extend to c++.
>
>
Really? I was in that particular boat at one point in my career. I typed
extern "C" { ............ } a lot. No big deal.
Similarly, as a JS developer, both front and back end, I have figured out
how to transition my projects from ES5 to ES6 in the most efficient way
possible: I have done absolutely nothing, and they continue to work
perfectly. In fact, I have ES3 code still running in the wild.....
Wes
On 10/27/17, Mark <mark at heyimmark.com> wrote:
> > kai, what do you think would've been a better alternative? (Honestly
> > curious)
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:27 AM kai zhu <kaizhu256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> tc39 is partly to blame for promoting the perception of javascript
> >> language instability, which promotes tooling instability.
> >>
> >> generators, es modules, destructing, let, fat arrows have caused
> >> tremendous harm to tooling stability, which has made
> >> frontend-development hell for everyone.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/27/17, Jordan Harband <ljharb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > aka "how it feels to learn"?
> >> >
> >> > A decent response:
> >> >
> >> https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/how-it-feels-to-learn-j
> avascript-in-2017-a934b801fbe
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:38 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> (humor?)
> >> https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-
> >> >> d3a717dd577f
> >> >>
> >> >> It all seemed so simple....
> >> >>
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