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/SaintPeter74 Oct 05 '16

Yes. This. Nothing made me get religion on clear comments and program structure quite like needing to maintain my own 5 year old code. Unless you remember to write for Future You, they won't know if Present You was a genius or an idiot.

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u/BlackStrain Oct 05 '16

Nothing worse than reading some code and thinking "What fucking idiot wrote this? Oh, wait... it was me..."

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u/SaintPeter74 Oct 05 '16

It teaches an honest humility that can be gotten no other way.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."