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JavaScript is Not a Joke (alexkras.com)
2 points by akras14 on Oct 5, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> But they are very easy to create and there is true value in developers’ productivity.

What makes you think that there aren't environments where it's even easier to create stuff in ? Your stopwatch app is 192 lines of code. Here's an equivalent QML app that fits in less than 100: https://paste.ofcode.org/ZWxapD4sWP7Q3SBDu6FXBW in a single, simpler file.


"JavaScript is not a joke" says the author, while he abuses all of the worst aspects of the language and its tooling.




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