Elm – “Designing to infantilize a target audience is how we got Java”

Re:Elm – “Designing to infantilize a target audience is how ... by extrospect on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:52AM (#12964834)

...and then in the very next breath:

  JavaScript dev's who are 
  interested in Elm, are the 
  cream of the crop imho and 
  good engineers will step 
  upto the plate when 
  challenged.

Ha ha! Okay, buddy! So long, and thanks for all the fish!

(cringe)

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Re:Elm – “Designing to infantilize a target audience is how ... by alanfranzoni on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:28AM (#12965345)

Yes, that's an incredibly bold statement. Javascript today is probably the most popular language in the world (according to Github; other indices tell a different story), and that gives it the very same role that at once was fulfilled by Java or even PHP: it's probably the first language a newcomer will learn programming with, hence you'll find a lot of unskilled engineers as well as some experts.

So, saying that Javascript devs, just because they're interested in Elm, are "the cream of the crop"... sounds ludicrous.

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