Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by austincheney on Friday December 28, 2018 @01:45AM (#18775222)

In JavaScript the problem is #2. People who develope in this technology want it easy right the fuck now. Failure avoidance is absolutely the name of the game. It is so prevalent there is even a name for it: invented here.

I can say this in all fairness as somebody who writes in that language fulltime for more than a decade.

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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by em-bee on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:53AM (#18775878)

that's the downside of javascript being the only game in town. to get away from it use typescript or coffeescript or some other alternative language that translates to javascript.

since choosing such a language requires extra learning, that pretty much leaves all "want it easy right now" people behind.

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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by austincheney on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:47AM (#18776232)

> that's the downside of javascript being the only game in town.

Why? I don't see the correlation between the technology and the rampant immaturity or unrealistic expectations of people developing in it. I have also experienced this immature temperance from people with a long history of developing in other languages coming into JavaScript and deliberately sacrificing common sense for insecurity resolution, which suggests the immaturity isn't simply due to a low barrier of entry.

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