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Nelek wrote: Are you talking about me concrete or are you talking about people / situation in general?
Generalizing man. I think you're awesome. I would elaborate, but this thread is already devolving into the phlegm of the Internet, I'll call it. Let's just say, peeps be immature and they be online a lot apparently, because the real world don't want them.
Not you dude. 
Nelek wrote: Teasing people from time to time is ok and can be funny, yeah
It's like anything though man. Like if you and I teased each other, we know each other well enough by now to know it's a joke. I'm referring to the crap where you can tell people really need to grow up.
Jeremy Falcon
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Isn't the bane of human existence the realization of how clueless we were 5 years ago and blocking out the realization that we are currently clueless compared to our 5 years in the future self? Of course if you are not, that means you won't learn anything substantial in the next 5 years.
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Tru dat, man.
Jeremy Falcon
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Look, I don't like JavaScript and I believe it has been used and abused way beyond what it meant to be used for.
Since I have worked with both JavaScript and VBScript extensively in my career, for me, I always preferred VBScript since it was a far easier scripting language to use and implement. And when compared to JavaScript, it was also a far superior language implementation.
Today, JavaScript is a sheer mess of tools, frameworks, and the like. You see many complaints regarding which tool or framework is best as well as which would be the most reliable for the long term.
In addition, the use of massive amounts of JavaScript in web applications make them more vulnerable to attack and less efficient. And there is very little real sense in using so much of this language.
But JavaScript's use and expansion into development circles was primarily predicated on the fact that it was free and Open Source, which was all the rage years ago, while VBScript was limited to Windows functionality such as Internet Explorer.
Had Microsoft done the intelligent thing and Open Sourced VBScript when it no longer wanted to support this language, allowing the community to expand its capabilities and the browsers it could target, JavaScript never would have become the thing it is today...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Yeah dude, no. You're confusing a lot of different things here besides the language itself. Not gonna spend time on this... tootles.
Jeremy Falcon
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It isn't always because we don't know something about what we reject. Sometimes it is just a reasoned analysis after learning, to a degree, how to use something new.
JavaScript (JS) intersecting with my own experience is a good example.
I came from a background where, over the years, I had written programs in FORTAN, assembly, a proprietary Barber-Colman language for a specific industrial controller, COBOL, QuickBasic, Clipper/xBase, and Visual Basic. I knew C and C++ well enough to read and understand but did not write in it. When web development became more prevalent in the mid 90s and beyond, I looked at JS in the early 2000s (and again in the 2010s and today) since it was integral to websites (and superior to VBScript, its initial competitor). By the mid 90s, I was used to the benefits of object-oriented programming (OOP).
As I started to learn JS and see code from its use in the real world, I looked at its productivity potential, its history, and how it is executed, I saw some drawbacks that I didn't care for. JS was not originally intended for the kind of interactive apps we see today. Neither was HTML and CSS. But over the years, necessity and technology improvements have resulted in kludges in JS to keep up. IMHO, the two hardest areas for JS is it running as script, and not compiled to the machine level, and a lack of OOP. When I convert older ASP.NET programs, heavy with JS, to WebAssembly using C# (though any supported OO language would yield the same analysis), I see the productivity gains, the performance gains, the flexibility, fewer (almost no) browser incompatibilities, and less code needed. For someone who has years of experience writing JS, they can be productive to a degree. Opening the frontend logic to OOP languages instead of JS opens the developer pool for organizations creating the websites to more of their programmers, lowering cost and shortening the development portion of the SDLC.
JS is not bad, and it got us to a point where more was demanded of websites than JS could deliver and still be JS. Browser manufacturers adding the WebAssembly engine, based on meeting open source, standardized requirements, is where web app development is more economically delivered and maintained, performance is better, and OOP is integral. Just as the Single Page Application (SPA) was a revolution in bringing one of desktop apps' stateful advantages to web apps stateless limitations, WebAssembly is a revolution in web apps that is needed, however much it is resisted by the JS community. It is worth noting that of all the languages that work well being compiled to WebAssembly (Rust, C#, C++, etc.), JS is not one of them, mostly due to its lack of OOP. In WebAssembly, the use of JS requires the use of JS interop, which does not help performance. I see a lot of JS developers resisting WebAssembly with the same mindset that a lot of VB6 developers resisted .NET 20+ years ago, and COBOL developers resisted VB in business apps 30+ years ago.
It is much better to approach something you don't know, learn how to use it at least to a beginner's level, how it works (at least at a high level under the covers), see what the benefits and drawbacks are (especially related to the whole SDLC), the net business advantages or disadvantages, all with an informal value engineering analysis.
I am sure some will disagree, some will be able to add constructive ideas, and some are too busy to really care.  And that is OK.
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Thanks for the reply.
Just FYI, you can do OOP since ES6 and JS has always been functional in nature. It's a different paradigm. Comparing it to C++ or C# (back in the day) was the problem. People can't break their molds to see past their own biases. That's all. Nothing more; nothing less.
As far as WASM... I'll save that for a different day. Me like it. It's gotta ways to go though. I gotta back to work and thar be peeps not really worth replying to on this thread (not yours, I liked your reply).
Jeremy Falcon
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I hate JavaScript and I know everything about it - I've been "programming" in it since it first emerged, and it's filth. Granted, the DOM is filth, too, so you sort of need filth to deal with it, but JavaScript is inconsistent between browsers, untyped, messy, unstructured and - well - it's Filth. So's COBOL.
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You don't know the difference between a language, the DOM and browser, and browser issues. You're not an expert... no matter how much you pretend to be online.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, you're probably right. After all, I've only been programming since 1978, and have only written nine compilers.
Perhaps, on the other hand, you should actually read what I wrote, rather than reacting like an infant.
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You can insult me, that doesn't mean I'm wrong. It means your old and still haven't learned to communicate or speak in concepts. Tootles.
Jeremy Falcon
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Attack what I said, then, instead of attacking me. By doing that, you lose automatically. Go on: tell me why I'm wrong.
It's such fun when children get hold of the power tools.
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You're not an expert, son. But, you are wasting my time. So, enjoy having the last word....
Jeremy Falcon
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Whatever. "Add ignorant to deluded giving Dunning-Kruger", as they say in Cobol, which is a language in which people write shopping lists and convince themselves they're programmers.
And you've still failed to do anything other than insult me, from which I learn that you're actually talking to a mirror and I'm just listening.
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I agree with and love your high-level point .. but on the specific example of JavaScript, you're wrong -- it's terrible. :]
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Nope. You're welcome to your incorrect opinion though, but I instantly no longer view this conversation as senior level given that lackluster rationale that's clearly based on blah.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I did something called growing up
Yet in our most recent discussion you didn't hesitate to assume I know nothing about JavaScript just because I disagree with you (and now you're assuming you know more than pretty much the entirety of CP).
I've worked with JavaScript for over ten years (mostly front-end, mind you), I did some non-trivial work in it, and I can simply say it's a horrible language.
I'm not saying it can't do stuff, I'm saying it has way too many WTFs and doing stuff is often hard or weird.
The way it handles NaN (which you can easily get, for example by doing 1 - {}, yet 1 + {} yields a string), how "this" is handled is just pure madness, many WTFs with basic operators (like the + and - of a number and object, now try + and - on a string and number), missing basic functionality (although that's getting better), the lack of an integer type or a "safe" decimal type, the whole ecosystem which forces you to install 100s of dependencies of which some have a single line of code (padLeft, anyone?), and the list goes on.
It wasn't to long ago where the only sure way to check if an object is an array was Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === "[object Array]" and for NaN obj !== obj despite the isNaN and isArray functions!
You seem to love JavaScript for some reason, the rest of the world hates it.
But of course the rest of the world must be wrong.
You claim people lack the maturity to not be overly emotional about crap, yet you seem overly emotional about JavaScript.
Let's be mature about it and agree to disagree.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Yet in our most recent discussion you didn't hesitate to assume I know nothing about JavaScript
You don't. Bye.
Jeremy Falcon
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Btw, I'm not wasting my time on your posts anymore when you've proven you don't even read mine before you do your hate thing. I expected more out of you.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: when you've proven you don't even read mine
I've read it, as I have read other posts of yours, and if there's one thing I can conclude it's that you're far from "grown up".
See ya later, "mid".
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I sometimes asked in job interviews, "What are your favorite and least favorite programming languages?" The followup question was "What is your favorite feature in your least favorite language, and your least favorite feature in your favorite language?" The purpose of these two questions was to see if the candidate actually thought about the tools they use, or were they just a fanboy.
If a candidate went to a decent university CS program, they were exposed to some very different languages, so they would have a basis for this opinion. If they were self-taught, they might only know one programming language. I would take it easy on such a candidate if they admitted their limits, but not so much if they were a fanboy.
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Perhaps ... Google thought that you like metal ...
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Saw ZZ top perform live in Sequin TX 1970. I grew up just down the road from Gruene (we pronounced it Green).
Saw ZZ top in Boerne, (we pronounced it Bernie) TX before they became famous.
Lagrange is small town southeast of Austin.
infamous for being the best little whorehouse in TX (Chicken Ranch).
Even made a movie about it (Dolly Parton). Not the best cinema made in TX.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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