any thoughts? i'll break the ice with a quora question i recently answered quora question: > Why is JavaScript so hated?
answer posted: >the primary reason is because traditional oop skills gained from >c#/c++/java/python/etc translate poorly to javascript. > >in javascript, class-instantiated objects are inferior to plain-objects, >because plain-objects come with JSON.stringify/JSON.parse baked-in, while >classes require needless extra serialization/deserialization routines which >can easily double your codebase or more (as real-world javascript-code is >heavily i/o based). i would say many people burn-out from frontend-programming >because they can’t cope with debugging all the i/o edge-cases >serializing/deserializing their custom classes. > >javascript and frontend-programming is essentially about efficiently managing >the program-state like a baton, constantly passing it back-and-forth between >the browser’s ui and various backend-servers / persistent-storage. plain >json-objects utilizing idiot-proof JSON.stringify/JSON.parse, are naturally >better at this baton-passing business than writing classes with custom >serializers. there's currently a civil war going on in frontend-development, between those who don't want to deal with writing extra class-based serializers/deserializers and those who do. these 2 different design patterns have incompatible styleguides that often break web-projects when people try to mix-and-match both together. i don't have a simple solution to this issue, but tc39 should be made aware of it as they try to formulate a javascript vision that doesn't alienate frontend-development. -kai _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
