Re:Ask HN: How to deal with the tedium of programming?
by facepalm on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:36AM
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"Who need to learn the libraries? They must have some documentation, I suppose."
I am not saying it would be difficult. But I lack the energy. I have read a lot of documentation in my 30 years of programming.
ECMA-262: around 250 pages, most of which is just water. One day reading. No new concepts are introduced over anything that existed 30 years ago, so it does not require any learning, just knowing where to look for a reference.
> client side frameworks
Who need to learn the libraries? They must have some documentation, I suppose. And again, I really doubt any of those managed to introduce a fundamentally new concept which was not known 30 years ago.
> but haven't monitored the developments of the language and best practices for the last 3 years
The safest assumption is that nothing really changed.
> I like data science
I.e., statistics, a > 100 years old science.