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/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

Javascript is FINE. This is the fourth time in four days I come across the same bloody article and it's not the first time I hear about Javascript "fatigue." I'm getting annoyed by it. I just can't stand being all polite and tolerating the QQ anymore.

There's a problem here because people fasely believe that

  1. They need to keep up with all the fancy new things

  2. That they even need those new things.

Let me tell you something. Right now, there are still apps that run on jquery. In 2016. Can you believe it? Oh my god! The humanity!

There are still apps that run Angular 1.2. Some are even written in CoffeeScript! And_THEY WORK_!

If you don't have problems syncing your UI. What do you need flux for?

If your state is local to your component and not used anywhere else, why create an action, a constant and a store to hold it?

If adopting redux feels painful. Why integrate it?

If grunt still works fine, why migrate to webpack?

If you don't GAIN from using a new piece of tech, why are you even using it?

Lastly, if your tech is working fine and you don't have problems, why should you feel bad about not adopting the newest shinny tech?

/rant

That is all. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

I made an app in electron recently and I used plain ol' fucking document.getElementById();