Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

Re:Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That by a3n on Sunday March 30, 2014 @03:50PM (#7497621)

Aside:

Your invocation of Effective Java made me look for Effective Javascript, and it does exist. Amazon users give it five stars: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-JavaScript-Specific-Software...

Can anyone comment on how well this books fulfills the expectations implicit in a book calling itself "Effective X?" Or just how effective the book is with respect to accepted javascript practice?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That by dangoor on Sunday March 30, 2014 @04:28PM (#7497776)

I haven't personally read it (shame on me!) David Herman and I spoke from time-to-time while I was at Mozilla and he's very smart, a very clear communicator and he knows the language as only a language lawyer can. He's actually a member of TC-39 (the ECMAScript committee) and had a big hand in the modules coming in ES6.

By every account I've seen, it's a great book and the only reason I haven't read it is that I've already been bitten by all of JS' pitfalls once or twice :)

The real reason I'm posting a comment, though, is to give you a link to the JS Jabber episode in which they talk to Dave about the book:

http://javascriptjabber.com/044-jsj-book-club-effective-java...

That episode will give you a good idea of what the book is like.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That by geekingfrog on Sunday March 30, 2014 @08:31PM (#7498717)

It's a very good book. It explains a lot of 'why' and inner working of good practices.

It's also fairly comprehensive, ranging from - some evilness (type inference with ==, eval and its performance toll) - functions and higher order functions - objects and prototypes. Some good explanations of the all prototype and constructor thing - array, dictionnary and some things to know about their prototypes - api design and concurrency

It's 200 pages full of content, I recommend it.

[ Parent | on HN ]