Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by shawnz on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:23PM
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Why does that impact whether or not it's a reasonable choice to use the language today? Old libraries I could understand, but old independent projects? How do they affect the current state of the language?
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by bitL on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:14PM
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Isn't it obvious? You apply for a job, company that isn't a startup has code that is likely written with old JavaScript whose replacement is not economical, so even if you do everything new in ES7, you still have to wade through old ugly code, likely everyday.