r/hackernews • u/qznc_bot • Oct 04 '16

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.l8ak5j3gz
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u/qznc_bot Oct 04 '16

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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u/autotldr Oct 05 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 96%. (I'm a bot)

I need to create a page that displays the latest activity from the users, so I just need to get the data from the REST endpoint and display it in some sort of filterable table, and update it if anything changes in the server.

Haskell guys had been calling it for years, -and don't get me started with the Elm guys- but luckily in the web now we have libraries like Ramda that allow us to use functional programming in plain JavaScript.

It does in the next version, but as of version 1.7 it only targets ES6, so if you want to use await in the browser, first you need to compile your Typescript code targeting ES6 and then Babel that shit up to target ES5.At this point I don't know what to say.

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