> > > Amen to that. JavaScript seems worse than any other language when it comes > to finding correct information on the web. For example, I trust > StackOverflow for many topics, but for JavaScript, it’s often shockingly > wrong. Half-truths are even worse than information that is completely wrong. >
Join the PromoteJS revolution. http://promotejs.org > However, there are so many styles in JavaScript that I don’t think there > is a way of creating a corpus that everyone agrees on. The best you can do > as a newbie is hitch your wagon to someone that you trust and follow > his/her style. There are a few books that allow you to do that (JavaScript > the good parts, Eloquent JS, etc.). I really liked “Effective Java”, a > similar book would make sense for JavaScript (in many ways “the good parts” > already is). Some of Brendan’s tweets, some of Allen’s or David’s posts, > and Mark’s recent puzzle would all qualify as material for such a book. > As an aside, this book is pretty good too: http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp/0596806752 Apart from that, I thought that it might make sense to found some kind of > “network of trust” of people who write introductory articles. It would be a > brand that tells people that the information they see is correct. For > example, when I see something by, say, Addy Osmany, Angus Croll, or > Nicholas Zakas I know that there usually won’t be any errors. It might make > sense for someone to curate the considerable introductory material that is > out there. That could be complemented by a peer review process. > > -- > Dr. Axel Rauschmayer > a...@rauschma.de > > home: rauschma.de > twitter: twitter.com/rauschma > blog: 2ality.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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