Slowly, I'm turning to the Dark Side...

Sander Rossel

JavaScript is the path to the Dark Side. JavaScript leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. And suffer I do... :sigh: Yoda was wrong about one thing though. Do or do not. There is no try. It seems with JavaScript I keep on trying and trying, but ultimately it gets the job done... On some browsers anyway. The worst part is that when I switch to C# it looks so much like JavaScript that I sometimes forget it's not JavaScript :~

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Regards, Sander

OriginalGriff

I too find Javascript most trying.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

kmoorevs

The only thing worse is scripting javascript with PHP. :laugh: It's difficult to escape!

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

Sander Rossel

Don't know if I should laugh or cry ;p

Try this[^] ;)

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Smart K8

Feel secured knowing that there's only the Dark Side in that (AJAX) arena, Luke. :laugh:

kmoorevs

Thought this would make a nice \'escape\'. Their Names Escape Me[^]

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

Lost User

I know how you feel. A terrible language, half baked libraries, browsers with strange behavior and zools that are a pain to work with (even when they work). The stuff of which the future programming horrors are made.

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." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

JimmyRopes

Actually, JavaScript is very powerful. I thought I knew JavaScript until I read "JavaScript the Complete Reference", or some such book. I then learned how much I didn't know about JavaScript. It is a very powerful language that everyone should try to know, and I don't mean copying from the internet. I mean trying to understand the capabilities of the language.

Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha

Sander Rossel

It's only as powerful as the interpreter makes it. Other than that it's a loosely typed language that gives you nothing, silently handles errors, often doesn't even recognize errors as errors (undefined variable, now it's defined!) and is often very unpredictable. Well, this website[^] says it all really. The only reason JavaScript is so "powerful" is because it's the only option you have for front-end web development. That's why everyone knows JavaScript. And that's why every vendor wants to support it. It's going to be the language for the IoT. It's going to be the new language for embedded development. It's going to be the new language for server side development. It's going to be the new language to query (NoSQL) databases. It's going to be the language that will plunge us into a dark age of programming! Well, I admit there are times when I like JavaScript. But mostly it makes up for very fragile code that blows up in your face because you misspelled a variable name, doesn't tell you about it, but gives you (really very wrong) results anyway.

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Regards, Sander

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

If JavaScript is path to dark side, would jQuery be the devil? What would Angular.js be and what role would be played by Modernizr? When C# seems to look like JavaScript, you should get some rest. :)

The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

Sander Rossel

Had to squint to read Spock's Beard! I must admit I really listen to a whole lot of music genres (really, from black/death/thrash metal to hardstyle/dance/trance/dubstep to trip hop/chill out to hip hop/rap to classical), but progressive rock is one of the very few genres I really can't listen to... X|

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Sander Rossel

jQuery, Angular, Modernizr, what-have-you... All Sith Lords of course! ;)

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JimmyRopes

You need to internalize your anger, and then step back and try to be objective :-D

Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha

Sander Rossel

Don't get my started on 'OOP' in JavaScript X|

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JimmyRopes

Obviously you don't understand the capabilities of the language. Keep your hate speech to yourself. :doh:

Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha

Camilo Reyes

There is beauty in the language. To me it feels like when you get sour lemons you make tasty lemonade. Have you encountered this[^]?

Marc Clifton

One word: Dart[^] Next project :) Marc

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Sander Rossel

I've been meaning to check out Dart! And TypeScript! :D

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enhzflep

Laughs. Not familiar with "use strict";?

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

Sander Rossel

I am, but it makes it only a tiny bit better. It doesn't make a loosely typed language static :)

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