Re:Programming Sucks and Why I Quit (2014)
by outworlder on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:03AM
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I think many comments like this are missing the point. You don't get a "Haskell/C/Java/Lisp validator". You have a compiler, which will flag obvious crap as crap. The possibly crap stuff are flagged as warnings. And then you have a linter when you want your crap to smell slightly better. But the point is that obviously wrong stuff on the web should give you errors, not a vaguely working page, sometimes, in some browser version.
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It is you who has missed the point. I mention in my comment specifically that W3 validation errors are not comparable to compiler errors or run time errors in programming.
As far as things working in one browser and not another, if you're working with standard features they tend to work across all modern browsers. If you are using features which are still only candidates, then yes they may not work but you've chosen to implement non-standard features so you've done this to yourself.