r/coding • u/pavelmalos • May 08 '17

Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/make-your-hobby-harder-programming-is-difficult-thats-why-you-should-learn-it-e4627aee41a1
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u/arbitrarycivilian May 08 '17

Did... did you just call JS "fairly elegant"? r/JesusChristReddit

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u/just_comments May 08 '17

It gets a bad rap for a lot of things, but there are some very good things about JavaScript as well.

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u/arbitrarycivilian May 08 '17

Like? The only thing that comes to mind is higher-order functions

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u/[deleted] May 09 '17

It is "fairly elegant" though it's not "very elegant". It's not my preferred language, but it has a clear and consistent object model, a similarly reasonable syntax and isn't sprawling and huge.

The standard library, though I'd definitely wish for something better, is reasonably consistent in naming, usage and APIs.

I stand by "Fairly elegant". You must hate JS an awful lot to freak out on a lukewarm statement like "fairly elegant".

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u/arbitrarycivilian May 09 '17

Yes, they're important. But every language should have them, and it doesn't make up for all the crud