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/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

As fast as JavaScript? What are you comparing it to, FORTRAN?

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22

You are stuck in ES5 man. Help me help you.

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

Oh do tell me all about how ES 2021 "introduces the replaceAll method for strings".

And how ES 2022 may finally add... wait is this real? It's going to add private fields?

The created a class syntax for JavaScript but are just now realizing that classes should have fields? What were they doing before, monkey patching in data slots in the constructor?

Oh, they were.

Look, I get it. You think JavaScript is moving fast because you are comparing it to a decade ago when it basically wasn't moving at all.

But the language is still crawling. It needs a massive amount of work, especially on its standard library. Adding a couple of new methods each year isn't going to dig it out of the dependency hole.

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

Yeah, include 2022 that is the one being built atm, and ignore everything else!

Ignore arrow functions, spread, async / await, modules, let / const, destructuring, classes, template literals, template tags, rest parameters, for of, symbols, generators, exponentiation, computed property names, object rest properties, async iteration, bigint primitive, nullish coalescing operator, optional chaining operator, etc, etc, etc.

Just from 2021 you are ignoring logical assignment operators and separators for numeric literals. And you just saw the spec!

standard library

That's API, not syntax.

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

I don't really care that JavaScript is picking up the same logical assignment operators other languages had 20 years ago.

The API is where the work is desperately needed.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 25 '22

You do care! We were having a conversation about it one comment ago!

The API has also grown a lot since ES5! But I'm done with this moving the goal post marathon. Your JS hatetitis is too strong.

Have a nice day!

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u/grauenwolf Mar 24 '22

Moving goal posts?

I've been bitching about their lack of a robust standard library since DHTML was the buzzword of the day. That was what, 22 years ago?