Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)
by lopatin on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:20PM
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Right, so I guess I'm not understanding your point about why comparing two languages like this is ridiculous. Java has a full blown runtime reflection system (it's "types exist at runtime"). JS doesn't. So Java wins in the reflection category.
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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)
by tracker1 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @03:43PM
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But in JS, reflection is pretty much not needed... I don't need to use reflection to see if an object has a quack method, or that I call it with the right types... I just call instance.quack() ... It's up to you as the developer to keep your interfaces and composition in line.
It's actually WAY easier than with C# or Java. Since the use-case of reflection itself is largely unnecessary.