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Re:Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript fo... by mzzter on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:32PM (#16803224)
How is JavaScript a small language at all? It’s comparable to Java in the number of language features.

Java Reference https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/index.html

JS Reference https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...

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Re:Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript fo... by sametmax on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:40PM (#16803302)
It's not even on the same planet.

In JS you have a very small number of types, keywords and a ridiculously small stdlib.

I'm not sure what to make of your comment.

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Re:Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript fo... by tomc1985 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:50PM (#16805235)
There is a lot of meta-knowledge buried in using those few features that he is probably referring to. Knowledge of language features is one thing, knowledge of when to use them is another
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Re:Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript fo... by sametmax on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:07AM (#16809000)
That's true for every language.

The only hard part with JS is the accumulation of bad design decision that means you gotta avoid or hack around part of the language.

The rest is just a basic dynamic language with some async semantics. Nothing crazy.

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