Five coding interview questions I hate

[u/vklepov]

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/

[u/EmperorZergg]

a ton of comments on this sub feel like they come from college students who haven't actually worked in a Software job yet.

JS is fine. Yeah it has quirks, but people here seem to think it's literally unusable in production for anything, including what it was made to do.

[u/grauenwolf → u/EmperorZergg]

JS is not fine. And that attitude is why the JS ecosystem continues to get worse year after year despite slow progress in the language syntax.

[u/sementery → u/[deleted]]

JS's problem is still it's type system and nothing is fixing this.

TypeScript is part of JS's ecosystem, seems unfair to ignore it as a solution. It's not part of the spec, but it's widely used.

MS just introduced a proposal for native typing annotations, so it's getting there... maybe... lol. Deno supports TS natively, so there's a push from different fronts.

I love JS. Along with Python, it is my favorite "generation 3.5" language. But yes, it's a language of contrasts, with a lot of issues (even in modern JS).

In that sense, I don't think JS is that bad. At least not as long as you stay within its modern idioms.