Git's list of banned C functions

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by GordonS on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:59PM (#26349722)

I've been a long-time Javascript hater. Probably didn't help that I started out 20 years ago, and dealing with cross-browser support was a big issue. And of course, let's so no more about Internet Explorer shudder. And then NPM - a direct result of JavaScript's anaemic standard library.

Anyway, things have changed a lot, and I recently worked on my first ever web app with native ES6 - no transpiling to ES5! It was... not nearly as bad as it used to be! Modules are a thing, and the language has evolved with things like async/await, evolved for the better, I think. The standard library is still horribly anaemic though - the number of "helper" functions needed is ridiculous.

But still, I would no longer classify myself as a hater. Progress at last :)

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by ggregoire on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:49PM (#26350210)

If static-typing is your thing, you should give a try to TypeScript. It's easily the biggest game changer that happened to the JS world in the recent years.

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by mannerheim on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:22PM (#26350567)

There are some JS problems that TypeScript doesn't solve, like Array.prototype.sort and .map, but it's still quite nice.

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