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The self-hating web developer

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Yes, I can back up that this "plausible criticism of the industry" has no roots in reality whatsoever. >Sign: "It has been [0] days since the last new Javascript framework." Web developers must run very hard to stay in the same place. We are talking about front end frameworks here, right? Ok, here is data for usage of front-end frameworks for a top million websites: Angular is used on 0.4% [0] Ember is used on React…

I appreciate your refutation.

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Re: The self-hating web developer

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Haskell us perfectly fine to start with. It's just Haskell + zsh + git + archlinux + vim + cool-tech aren't things you should learn all at once. Heck, 12 years in, and I'm still lot fluent in all of those. We can still tell people about cool stuff, just encourage them to take one step at a time, in their own time.

Advice to start learning programming from Haskell or Lisp or C++ is arrogance.

I know Haskell is the introductory programming language of choice at many British universities like Oxford and Cambridge. In the US C, C++ and Scheme (functional) are all in the top 6 most common ( http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the... ) so I don't see at all why those shouldn't be good choices.
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