The JS ecosystem has gone through a lot of development recently, and with incredibly fast pace. ES2015, ES2015+, Babel, React, Angular, TypeScript.
People who looked down upon Node or JS in general, have your views changed?
Ask HN: People who looked down upon Node.js/JS, has ES6/etc. changed your views?
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#2ES6 is is such a lovely language to write
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#3I can't see why it would.
It amplifies much of the criticism of JS and the JS ecosystem that I have been presented with.
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#4No
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Re: Ask HN: People who looked down upon Node.js/JS, has ES6/etc. changed your views?
#6I used to be very pro object oriented (Java, C#, etc). Saw JS as a hack. Then I tried it and realized that it made my development time shorter. Thing is, it's a programming language and it can be as good or terrible as you want it to be.
Just because I moved to JS, doesn't mean I threw away the best practices I learned earlier. I still take a careful look at node packages I use and try to understand how it works before blindly using it. I've worked with some people who would look up something on npm, then immediately go npm install and go to production. You can do that in Java, too.
Only thing I worry about now is that I don't use Java, C#, etc enough to prove to job recruiters that I'm not rusty.
Re: Ask HN: People who looked down upon Node.js/JS, has ES6/etc. changed your views?
#7Yes I admit years ago I hated JS but mainly because I had to work with IE5. Now it's interesting to me as an alternative paradigm I.e. the prototype based OO. Still prefer Haskell tho.