Re:JavaScript is Eating the World
by Arzh on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:24PM
(#15092090)
The argument that people always throw at me is that too hard for people to know two languages, well, for frontend devs to know two languages. Now in a perfect world the frontend people who just can't figure out two or more languages would never touch the backend but the world of software now is "that'll do" not "what is the right tool." It's a shame to me really but I'm not a frontend dev for a reason.
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> The argument that people always throw at me is that too hard for people to know two languages, well, for frontend devs to know two languages.
This is ridiculous from the point of view any professional developer. I know that this is your point, and I'm just amplifying it. I (and many other professionals I work with) know - and use on a daily basis - so many more than 1 language that it's sincerely baffling to grok a world that promotes "One language fits all". That's without even considering the parlous state of npm and its libraries.
Re:JavaScript is Eating the World
by thehardsphere on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:32PM
(#15092708)
If "frontend devs" are really, truly, genuinely capable of only holding one language in their heads, and that language is Javascript, then we should deprecate the term "frontend developer" and replace it.
I would propose "person who can only be at most half-competent," except that is too wordy and probably too charitable.