How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer

Post by jdd » Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 4:19 AM UTC

dlau1 wrote: post #147

darby2000 wrote: post #33

Just adding my two cents. Wanna be a good JS dev? Go play around with a lisp. Like Clojure for a month or two. Get comfortable with functional programming. Then come back to JS. So many people come from a OOP to JS and they have a bad time with it. JS is more like a lisp with C syntax than it is a traditional OO language. Learning Clojure, not only improved my JS abilities, but just my over all programming maturity.…

Agree so much with this comment. Downside is that after using a proper functional language (clojure[script]) you end up wanting some really basic things such as immutable core data structures. I feel like if you start from scratch on a javascript project, it's possible to program in a functional manner. I've found it really tough to introduce functional concepts to an already full stack javascript codebase. BTW: I'd…