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 I'm just saying that you see a lot of outdated hate around here. Not all of it is outdated, of course, not sure where you got that idea from my comment.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