The JavaScript language continues to get bigger and more complex. Latest example: http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/int64 … Please stop adding features to it!
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Replying to @haxor @SlideShare
but it's the only language we have and it sucked. Should we have just left it awful?
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Replying to @aboodman
There's a big difference between improving existing functionality and adding things like operator overloading, right?
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Replying to @haxor
modern JS is a really nice language. Gives me faith and trust in whatever they do next.
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Replying to @aboodman
I'm more excited about TypeScript than vanilla JS. But TS's complexity eg. http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/interfaces.html#indexable-types … makes JS look like C# and Java.
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The problem is that JS is no longer a language you can learn in a day.
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Replying to @aboodman
So you only hire engineers who are proficient JS programmers? You don't hire great engineers and expect them to learn new skills?
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Replying to @haxor
Java is not a language you can learn in a day. Python is not. Ruby is not. Why should only JS have that constraint.
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I've been writing Python from time to time for 15 years and I still feel super slow in it. Exactly as you probably feel about JS.
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: /me barges in OH HAI, I HEAR YOU WANT A TYPE SYSTEM!?!!
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Replying to @slightlylate @aboodman
To be clear, it's not like Python's attempt at TypeScript-like annotation is any better: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html …
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