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Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:57PM (#15596039)
Judge work by what it does, not by what it doesn't have.

Like users, programmers don't care whether programs have tests as long as it does what it needs to do.

Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by simplify on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:14PM (#15596171)
Tests are a way to judge what it does. It does the judging for you, ensuring features work as advertised, and provide usage examples that are guaranteed to work.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by Fifer82 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:30PM (#15597185)
They are also boring as fuck and assume no talent for a project of this scope.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by opmac on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:13AM (#15598752)
Speak for yourself... that's quite the generalization. I'm a programmer, and I care when something doesn't have tests, especially if it's my own code.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by dabernathy89 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:51PM (#15596430)
While this is true for you and me, this isn't true for a huge number of developers.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by harunurhan on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:01PM (#15596069)
So I should wait until stuff starts breaking, then start complaining.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:07PM (#15596121)
Yeah.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by harunurhan on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:16PM (#15596184)
I am glad that this approach works for you but I am not brave enough to use a new library without a single test.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by foodstances on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:53PM (#15596451)
I guess this project isn't for you then.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by anon335dtzbvc on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:25PM (#15597143)
Well I would use it, but I wouldn't contribute, because I write all my code in a test driven programming way. AFAIK Chuck Norris writes the code first, never the test.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:07PM (#15596116)
If nothing breaks why would you complain?
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by anon335dtzbvc on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:36PM (#15597234)
It's not a question of wether something might break, it's a question of when will it break and how long a new introduced bug might be undetcted, that could have easily detected by some tests? Bugs always happen in projects, if someone says otherwise, he either proved his program to be correct (e.g. in COQ) or is wrong (and sometimes both :).
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by harunurhan on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:12PM (#15596151)
In that case, I wouldn't. But I believe that it will happen eventually, this is not a 10lines project, has many lines of code and since it's new, I expect a lot to be changed. Then those changes are going to break features.
Re:Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript chart... by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:32PM (#15596291)
If you are worried about them breaking it as they develop it, but like the current implementation then just use the current implementation.

If you feel like having tests are a blocking feature for you then just watch this issue: https://github.com/frappe/charts/issues/7