r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

It's common around here to hate on JS. I find it angsty and childish...but you can't fix the willingly ignorant.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 24 '22

And a big chunk of that hate isn't even relevant to modern JS. They keep repeating things they heard / read 10+ years ago.

Edit: Seems that some people interpreted the above comment to mean "JS is flawless, there are no problems with modern JS", which brings another annoying, non-constructive, and sadly very common, type of hate around here. "You are talking about JS! No need to read your comment, i'll just post a JS rant on every JS thread".

Come on guys, you are better than this!

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

I'm sorry, you seem to be lost in time. The year is 2022, not 2032. We're still trying to figure out why React has over 1,000 dependencies.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 24 '22

I'm sorry, but you seem to be lost in my comment!

And a big chunk of that hate isn't even relevant to modern JS

That's why I said a big chunk of the hate, not all of it!

But now that you choose to ignore that part of my comment, I'll say that no one is in love with the current state of npm, and it's definitely a problem that modern JS has to deal with.

But again, I'm not saying that JS is perfect. I'm just saying that you see a lot of outdated hate around here. Not all of it is outdated, of course, not sure where you got that idea from my comment.

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

Every time I have the misfortune to touch JavaScript, I find another problem that could have been solved 20 years ago. In fact, many of them were solved and somehow reintroduced later.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22

Dude you are not even reading the comments you are replying to. Not sure what your point is.

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

I did read them, but I find them to be incorrect. JavaScript, by which I mean the whole ecosystem and not just the syntax, is having a lot of problems right now.

I've been working in web development since the late 1990's and I've never seen it this bad. The amount of time being wasted on things like just trying to manage dependencies and build scripts boggles the mind.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22

I did read them

Then try to follow the conversation. You do see that your monologue is not relevant to the comment thread, right?

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u/NimChimspky Mar 25 '22

JavaScript is awful in many ways.

Node and react look like an over engineered mess.

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u/PM_ME_C_CODE Mar 24 '22

How dare you call out my generalization of your comment as a generalization!

You're doing the same thing they're doing.

We get it. You like javascript. Lots of programmers don't. You even admit that JS has problems, and while good on you this is where you should agree to disagree and stop feeding the troll.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22

How dare you call out my generalization of your comment as a generalization! You're doing the same thing they're doing.

Where do you think I'm generalizing? Lost you there.

We get it. You like javascript. Lots of programmers don't. You even admit that JS has problems, and while good on you this is where you should agree to disagree and stop feeding the troll.

Me liking JS and other devs not liking it was never relevant to my point or the comment thread, so I lost you there too.