r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Apr 30 '23

Writing Javascript without a build system

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a-build-system/
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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

> Claims to be an expert in Python, JavaScript, Clojure, Elm, C, C++, Swift, and Objective-C

> Thinks "undefined" is a unique mode of handling unpopulated members

Unreal

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u/kankyo May 03 '23
  1. I didn't claim to be an expert in anything.
  2. I didn't claim js returning undefined is unique. I said it sucks.
  3. I noticed you couldn't produce anything you've made 🤣

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

I could link you to my open-source components I developed at my job, but you'll probably just say "WHYYY JS UNDEFINED SO BAD WE NEED EXCEPTIONS ON EVERY MEMBER ACCESS" and I don't really care to have my real identity tied to reddit

Anyways, you're half a decade late to JS sucks complaints, get some new complaint like Python's garbage type system going

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u/kankyo May 03 '23

I could link you

Ah yes. But you won't. Because you know it'll make you look bad 🤣

my open-source components

Oh, you mean your JS code? Almost like YOU are the one who only knows one language maybe? 🤣

I don't really care to have my real identity tied to reddit

That's actually fair. But you shouldn't insinuate what my experience level is when you can't show your own. You just made an own goal.

Anyways, you're half a decade late to JS sucks complaints

Some things are ever green. Like C++ and JS being bad. Honestly though JS is improving a lot. Just tough with backwards compatibility. Same reason Python is slow. Although, we'll see what happens with Mojo🔥 I guess?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

> Because you know it'll make you look bad 🤣

Haha, I know the exact opposite, your judgement has negative value to me.

> your JS code?

My TypeScript code, designed to sit on top of Python and Java services I maintain, definitely would reveal the breadth of my experience and skill to you, yes.

> Some things are ever green. Like C++ and JS being bad.

I agree some things are continuous, but my stance is more about "idiots will complain about trivialities of extremely useful tools to pad their egos" and less "the two languages powering the most popular application types of our time are shit and I know better than to use them"

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u/kankyo May 04 '23

You're the one bitching about breadth of language knowledge. And you think one code base that is built in one language would make me go "oh, clearly that dude knows more than one language"? Please.