When geeks design web pages for Javascript API's...
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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I'm with you on that one. I've done my share of researching libraries, frameworks and APIs only to find some non descript drivel reeking of wannabe marketing lingo, but never quite driving home the point that would actually explain what exactly they are doing. I'm not only talking about commercial stuff either. It's common that these kind of flowery, empty phrases are also used to promote free (open source etc., you name it) software. Thankfully sometimes I reconsider these packages after somebody, sometimes CP members, write articles about them actually showing me what they are good for. If somebody has the brilliance to come with a good tool, one would think they'd also be able to come up with a fairly precise description of what exactly that thingamajig is actually doing. Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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lodash is also available in a variety of other builds & module formats.
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I'm with you on that one. I've done my share of researching libraries, frameworks and APIs only to find some non descript drivel reeking of wannabe marketing lingo, but never quite driving home the point that would actually explain what exactly they are doing. I'm not only talking about commercial stuff either. It's common that these kind of flowery, empty phrases are also used to promote free (open source etc., you name it) software. Thankfully sometimes I reconsider these packages after somebody, sometimes CP members, write articles about them actually showing me what they are good for. If somebody has the brilliance to come with a good tool, one would think they'd also be able to come up with a fairly precise description of what exactly that thingamajig is actually doing. Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
Manfred R. Bihy wrote:
If somebody has the brilliance to come with a good tool, one would think they'd also be able to come up with a fairly precise description of what exactly that thingamajig is actually doing.
Sounds logical, but it requires completely different knowledge bases to create software and explain it. Add to that the fact that everyone in the entire world believes that he is a great writer, no matter how many people inform them that they can't understand a word of what they wrote, and you get the reason why software documentation is the way it is today. -- If you want software, you hire the most brilliant software engineer you can afford. -- If you want software documentation, you hire the most brilliant writer you can afford. Then you tell them that if they don't work together effectively, they'll both be replaced (it's OK to lie, sometimes). But don't make either try to do the other's job. Even if they're good at both, they do not have time to change focus so drastically.
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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What do you expect? Nobody in a healthy state od mind would mistake JavaScript with something that's remotely resembling a programming language. So let them go on with delivering consistency, modularity, performance (what a joke!) & extras.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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What do you expect? Nobody in a healthy state of mind would mistake JavaScript with something that's remotely resembling a programming language. So let them go on with delivering consistency, modularity, performance (what a joke!) & extras.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." -
...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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Marc, the description is actually pretty self explanatory. Let me rephrase it for you: "A JavaScript library with nothing useful in it, skip ahead"! ;P I would also add, "But it's enterprisey friendly" (with all the DI stuff and shit! ;P )
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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Lot of libraries coming out, wonder why i stuck using the native JS.
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...You get meaningless drivel like this: A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. Given me absolutely no idea WTF their package actually does. In this instance, I shame the creators of https://lodash.com/[^] What, am I supposed to know this through some spiritual channel? Marc
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Ha! I was just thinking the very same thing about lodash today! I was incorporating it into a new project I'm building because I was copying some useful JavaScripty stuff from another project, and looked into lodash. Came across that page and thought, "well now I have no idea what it does." Googled instead and some other page said it's basically a more lightweight version of underscore.js.
