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What will SystemJS+JSPM give me over Webpack? Just curious. Webpack also supports ES6 modules (as well as CJS and AMD) when used with 6to5 transpiler, and has a lot of great features like splitting code into bundles, figuring out the best way to split dependencies based on module size, and asynchronously loading missing chunks.
What will SystemJS+JSPM give me over Webpack? Just curious. Webpack also supports ES6 modules (as well as CJS and AMD) when used with 6to5 transpiler, and has a lot of great features like splitting code into bundles, figuring out the best way to split dependencies based on module size, and asynchronously loading missing chunks.
Still has more WTF moments than any other language I have used so far.
Your comment might be useful or interesting if you explained which WTF moments affected you in particular, or even just which other languages you've used. As it is, it's not adding much to the conversation which is why you've been downvoted.
The goal of the book is not to rag on JS. That's not new or really interesting in its own right. The goal is to walk people through the oddities of the language such as identity loss when passing a function from an object to something else (the good old this == window rather than self).
There are interesting, and annoying, things about JS that are non-obvious to people from a different language like Java or C#. There are other issues like testing and package management that are either assumed or glossed over. The JS community knows about them. Unfortunately for most of us, the responses to the language's weakness and ecosystem strengths are dispersed through the interblogs.
In fact from personal use of JS and some research on the book, I'm moving to a functional approach with JS. OO in Ecma5 is a pain. Pure (or Clojure like) functional can work with a bit of help from Underscore. That pardigm seems to fit the mentality of JS better too.
Really great screencast. If you have the good fortune to be a JS developer in 2015 (and beyond), there are some exciting times ahead!
I'm really late to the JS party, having just picked it up a month or so ago. node.js and Meteor are my current tools of choice; it's a rather super environment to get stuff done in. It's nice to see JS get some positive press.
Node.js is the only real dev language.
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I'm really late to the JS party, having just picked it up a month or so ago. node.js and Meteor are my current tools of choice; it's a rather super environment to get stuff done in. It's nice to see JS get some positive press.
In fact, JavaScript is the one late to the party, having developed some rudimentary tools only recently. There's nothing exciting about redoing old mistakes in a new ecosystem.
Still has more WTF moments than any other language I have used so far.
Your comment might be useful or interesting if you explained which WTF moments affected you in particular, or even just which other languages you've used. As it is, it's not adding much to the conversation which is why you've been downvoted.
var foo = ["10", "10", "10"];
foo.map(parseInt);
// Returns [ 10, NaN, 2 ]
[] + [] // ""
[] + {} // {}
{} + [] // 0
{} + {} // NaN
var a = {};
a[[]] = 2;
alert(a[""]); // alerts 2
alert(Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!");
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I'm actually trying to write a book about that myself. It's called "JavaScript es basura caliente: Learning JavaScript in Anger". The goal of the book is not to rag on JS. That's not new or really interesting in its own right. The goal is to walk people through the oddities of the language such as identity loss when passing a function from an object to something else (the good old this == window rather than self). Th…
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Its well documented: https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#JavaScript_sucks_b...
What advantages does this offer over the more mature ecosystem that surrounds browserify?