Re:Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
by tyingq on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:14AM
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There are some ecosystems where the experience is different. Perl, for example, does have deprecations, but not many. It's fairly common to be able to run 30 year old code unmodified, or with very minor changes. Of course, it has it's own issues, but it is very stable across time.
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Re:Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
by corrral on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:49AM
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One shock if you go back and forth between Javascript and, say, Java, is adjusting your library evaluation criteria.
It's not weird for a Java project to include a library that hasn't had any updates in 4+ years. Sometimes those sorts of libraries are even considered the standard for whatever thing they do.
Meanwhile in JS you have to assume a library with no releases in the last 6 months has already bitrotted to death.