On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:21:51 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 19:54:04 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:37:51 UTC, Craig
Dillabaugh wrote:
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:20:20 UTC, Paulo Pinto
wrote:
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Like it or not, JavaScript is good enough.
Really? I've been stuck for the past week or so trying to put
together a browser based UI using JavaScript + HTML for a
work related project. It has been a painful experience. In
fairness to JavaScript, I didn't know the language very well
coming in, but still I've found working in this setting
rather frustrating.
If the future of applications is really client-server based
applications, where the client is basically a VM (if we
consider the browser a VM of sorts) surely there is room for
a better development model than this HTML + Javascript
mongrel.
I developed 99% of the JavaScript part of an application for a
year, and I have extensive JavaScript knowledge. After all
that, I wrote this.
https://w0rp.com/blog/post/javascript-sucks/
@Craig&w0rp
I really do understand yeez. Really. At the moment I'm working
with JS (again). Nightmare. Disaster. The server side is
programmed in D, the user (client) side needs JS, ain't no
other way. I have made a real, real, real, reeeeel effort, I've
tried to replicate, mimic, emulate, imitate ... (running out of
words here) every good programming pattern ever invented. But
to no avail. JS is madness and I seriously don't understand why
it has survived the way it is, why people just didn't abandon
it years ago. It is madness. Frustration. Alienation.
Every time I write something in JS, I feel like a complete
programming novice, with the only difference that I know
exactly what I want and how I would do it in any other
programming language. But not so in JS. It defies reason and
common human logic. JS degrades programmers. Years of
experience are naught, you have to beg and cajole, you're at
the mercy of a psychopathic tyrant.
Whenever I program in JS I become highly irritable. When I
program in D, I'm calm, I know what I want, and I know I will
get it.
I don't understand why we haven't got over JS yet. The
Internet is so important and we still have to program things in
JS. I don't get it. Now don't mention PHP with me ...
"There is another option here. Use another programming language."
Thanks for this blog. Whenever I program in JS everything feels
rather 'undefined'. I would love to see the day when JS becomes
obsolete.
