Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview

Re:Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview by biocomputation on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:39PM (#12593821)

>> A good engineer can write high quality code in "almost" any programming language. It's the coder, not the language, that determines engineering quality.

That's just a platitude, and it's wrong.

Languages with better features allow engineers at varying levels of experience to write better code than they otherwise might.

JS almost forces you to write garbage.

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Re:Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview by bradscarleton on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:35PM (#12594216)

> JS almost forces you to write garbage.

There are ways to work around this...

First, ES6 brings a lot of enhancements to JS. However, it also makes JS even more complex and unwieldy because now you have all of these new and old language features co-existing.

If you use a tool like ESLint, you can limit yourself to a subset of the whole ES6 standard that I think is a decent programming language.

There's also other ways to go at it, by using a language that compiles to JS like TypeScript, however maybe that would be considered cheating in the context of this argument.

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