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Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

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Re: Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

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Post by geezerjay »

z3t4 wrote: post #3

What got me to love JS was probably learning about variable scope, closures, and async programming.

Those features are hardly exclusive to javascript. Why did they made you love javascript but not any of the myriad of languages that support those features?

Re: Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

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Post by tw1010 »

geezerjay wrote: post #5
z3t4 wrote: post #3

What got me to love JS was probably learning about variable scope, closures, and async programming.

Those features are hardly exclusive to javascript. Why did they made you love javascript but not any of the myriad of languages that support those features?

What makes you assume z3t4 exhaustively tried every other language before settling on JS? It's not typical that you present your opinion of a tv show by giving the few unique positive traits it has in contrast to the union of all positive traits from tv shows in the same genre. You just watch the show on a micro level, record what you liked about it, and report that, regardless of what the macro landscape looks like. That's the same way coders typically report preference about languages (on a micro level, not a macro level).

Re: Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

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Post by afandian »

pdpi wrote: post #4
z3t4 wrote: post #3

What got me to love JS was probably learning about variable scope, closures, and async programming.

As opposed to what other language?

Not GP but variable scope in JS is very different to e.g. C, C#, Java etc. Superficially it appears similar, but the syntax is a faux amis.
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