Why can't I write code inside my browser?

Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by chme on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:43AM (#25790833)

> I so completely disagree. Writing JavaScript is already so simple that almost nobody knows how to do it any more. You can download a colossal framework and a billion NPM packages to write some completely unoriginal CRUD application and bitch about how hard life is. Fearing writing original code is the name of the game.

The reason for this seems more that there a many coders that forget about the task of vetting their dependencies, which is a big part of programming.

Just learning a language does not give you the discipline required to be a good software engineer.

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Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by sidlls on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:28AM (#25792609)

I don’t think it’s because they forgot to vet their dependencies. I think it’s because there’s a culture of “just get it done” that fosters short cuts, and it’s coupled closely with a culture of worship around open source as if it should be implicitly trusted.

The result has been a massive proliferation of perpetually-junior engineers writing code and rising in ranks to run things.

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Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by potta_coffee on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:59AM (#25793021)

The worst kind of toxicity is when your senior engineers and team leads are actually junior engineers.

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Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by sidlls on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:52PM (#25794613)

It’s hard to be too hard on them though: they never had proper mentorship as junior engineers and their practices are reinforced by modern practices.

There is a worse toxicity in my opinion: when engineers at all levels religiously adhere to fads or practices just because others do (see: OO, TDD, etc.)

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