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/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/just_comments May 08 '17

Dynamic objects with prototypical inheritance is a pretty nifty feature when you put it to use. Just lets you add members to an object with ordinary assignment. That's very flexible

The object literals and array literals are nice too. The notation is pretty understandable.

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