Re:Do you really know JavaScript?
by mattmanser on Friday January 31, 2014 @05:48PM
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This isn't really true.
There are some programmers who are walking encyclopaedias of language features. It is absolutely no guarantee that they are good coders. Some simply can't code at all, they know all the motions but cannot see how to thread them together past the simplest of programs. Others cannot distinguish between useful language features and terrible ones, using them indiscriminately and making a terrible incomprehensible mess. And of course some are simply the best programmers you will ever meet.
Javascript is a language full of terrible design decisions. Knowing them all doesn't make you a good coder, in fact simply being taught only the safe parts will often make a better coder than knowing a lot of the results of these parlour tricks.
There are some programmers who are walking encyclopaedias of language features. It is absolutely no guarantee that they are good coders. Some simply can't code at all, they know all the motions but cannot see how to thread them together past the simplest of programs. Others cannot distinguish between useful language features and terrible ones, using them indiscriminately and making a terrible incomprehensible mess. And of course some are simply the best programmers you will ever meet.
Javascript is a language full of terrible design decisions. Knowing them all doesn't make you a good coder, in fact simply being taught only the safe parts will often make a better coder than knowing a lot of the results of these parlour tricks.