i know so many faggots who thinks javascript is easy. then if you ask them to come up with anything substantial, they can't write a single line of fucking code.
it seems like javascript is a tough language to master.
people seem to think that using jquery qualifies you as a javascript programmer, but no, fuck off. it doesn't work that way.
JavaScript is hard because it's full of inconsistent bullshit.
I'm never learning it because it would poison my mind.
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Anonymous2012-03-06 10:18
JavaScript is impossibly hard to debug. I have to run test cases for everything. >>2 So you say your mind is too small for a bit of JavaScript? Like if you were a mental midget.
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Anonymous2012-03-06 11:05
javascript is by far the most powerful scripting language
people keep using bullshit like python or lua or ruby but one of these days they'll learn...
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Anonymous2012-03-06 11:54
obviously it depends on what the application is doing. highlighting elements on a web page is easy enough that web designers can do it. something like gmail, asana, etherpad, or meebo is beyond most progammer's level of ability, regardless of language.
If you try to force Javascript into giving you the kind of type safety you would expect of a static language, you'll go crazy and waste a lot of time. I mean, shit -- you can't even know that the arguments passed meets the minimum requirements set forth by the function signature (those are just placeholder names, really). That's why I strongly disagree with Crockford's attitude about type coercion. I say all JS code should be coercion-oriented. The flexibility afforded by JS has its downsides, but there's no sense in attempting to address those downsides by also sacrificing the benefits to be had by said flexibility. I suspect that this is the main reason some programmers find programming in Javascript distasteful.
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Anonymous2012-03-06 14:09
Javascript is a language is annoying as fuck. It's much nicer to use Google Web Toolkit and write in Java instead, then translate it.
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Anonymous2012-03-06 14:15
Programming is hard wah wah we can't program wah
Then don't even try.
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the only reason javascript is "powerful" is because it has to be there in every browser, and therefore got lucky with a gigantic distribution. the language is not inherently more powerful than python, ruby, lua, etc.