Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by vinceguidry on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:49PM (#20646147)

The only thing JavaScript was ever even barely good for was that which it was designed to do, be the programmable interface for a browser. Why anyone would want to do anything else with it simply boggles my mind.

It's like if someone took the BASIC my calculator offered back in the day and turned it into a general purpose programming language.

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by heavenlyblue on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:13PM (#20646371)

But JavaScript's got asynchronous!

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by robocat on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:14PM (#20648202)

A race to the "promised async hell".

I wonder how many devs are struggling to debug and fix bad code written using Promise and async features. With care you can use these features safely and productively, but it is also very easy to make subtle mistakes that cause intermittent faults or strange corner case errors.

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by heavenlyblue on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:42PM (#20650068)

The comment is a reference to a phrase “It’s got electrolytes!”.

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by andrewprock on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:14PM (#20647039)

So was Windows 95.

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