News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language. Parent comment

Re:Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based pro... by noir_lord on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:00PM (#16181398)
Depends on your background, if you are .Net maybe F#, Java maybe Kotlin, PHP (and I say this as someone who writes PHP as a day job) maybe any other language in existence.

Functional programming is a completely different conceptual model and even if you don't use it day to day it teaches you some important principles.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based pro... by hasanas on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:13PM (#16181514)
I have been badly taught Java at university (not sure if the course sucked, or I did, but I am a blunder) and have just found myself drawn into the JS world. I really enjoy the concepts of OO, but I feel like my knowledge is very shallow.

Is it good if I rebuild my foundation on JS? I feel like JS is a bit, uh, messy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based pro... by rubicon33 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:40PM (#16181751)
Do yourself a favor (if you want to be a web developer):

Understand JavaScript deeply.

Write your applications in TypeScript.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based pro... by Roboprog on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:16PM (#16182065)
It’s a bit dated, but read “JavaScript, The Good Parts”. Also, check out the Ramda.js library, which brings quite a few good functional programming (FP) techniques to JS.

Function scope is good.

Closures are good.

Higher order functions are good.

Partial function application is good :-)

Warning: if you get too used to FP style programming in JS, Java will feel quite painful afterward.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based pro... by felideon on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:43AM (#16186102)
Eloquent JavaScript is probably what you are looking for: http://eloquentjavascript.net
[ Parent | on HN ]