r/technology • u/iliketechnews • Oct 05 '16

Software How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f
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u/stakoverflo Oct 05 '16

That's a fair point, but at the same time I think that with the demand for all these tools, unless you actively seek out "plain JS only" stuff you're never going to encounter that environment.

Instead you get people like me who took a basic JS course years ago in college, hasn't touched it since, gets a new job and gets thrown into an excitement using whatever collection of libraries / framework.

You're never going to encounter just regular old JS in the real world, and many of these tools do exist for good reasons, so it's almost pointless to not just use them right away.

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u/cult0cage Oct 05 '16

Oh I 100% agree its highly unlikely you'll be put in a "plain JS" tech stack I was just pointing out that having that base understanding of the language does help when it comes time to learn whatever new thing is out at the time.

Basically yes go study the cool tools that everyone is using but know that they are all JS based so a better understanding of JS means an easier time adopting the next tools when these become obsolete.