JavaScript is overly complex 👩‍💻 #programming #technology #software #code #business #javascript

[matthewsocoollike]

That’s why I learned to code in pure binary before learning javascript

[CodingWithLewis]

Do you think JavaScript is overly complex? 🤔

[AntonioZL]

Guys, watch out! There's a new JS framework and this one is DEFINITELY going to end the other ones!

[oogabooga]

working with JS for about 15 years now, im still a beginner

[zikobht]

I am learning Javascript every day and after all the basics i am using reactjs and still figure out new complex concepts.
I am planning to stick with react until I land my first job

[yokowasis]

Javascript is overly complex, said no one ever.

[entpsshadow]

A guy wanted me to learn Ember to work for his company and I'm like "what is this voodoo with a non existent community" 🤣🤣

[AdaptiveArtisian]

That’s true! I always preach the same, learning base/vanilla is far better. Adopting a framework can lead to inability to scale, creating a roof, thus resulting in your application having to adapt to the framework and not the other way around.

[vivekvenkata]

Just because there are many frameworks doesn't mean u need to get overwhelmed

[adeyanjusegunsamuel]

Vanilla JS first then pick any of the framework and get to work. Somehow all the other frameworks will not feel too complex. I did Vanilla -> Node Express -> Vuejs -> React -> Typescript -> Graphql.

So all the above are different but they are all also JavaScript so learning plain JS is best investment. Although if you can learn and become comfortable with any of the framework you will most likely find it easy to transition.

[harambe]

Great video.
This is what I’ve been trying to tell my colleagues all the time when they are so obsessed with various frameworks…
At the end of the day, they’re all just Javascript.

[soniablanche]

javascript is really simple actually, the fact that it has millions of frameworks is irrelevant

[Elefantoche]

Well... Yes, but, as with spoken human languages, it can be used to express anything using as much of their robustness by using complex lexical and grammar forms, or, you can go and express the same by using some reduced set of forms.

It all depends on context and who you're communicating with. For example, if I work alone on a project can use language and frameworks as vastly as I have domain over them, but, if my code is intended to be read by someone else, or, I have to work along a colleague I would try to avoid using as many advanced language "tools" as I can, just to ensure the understanding/learning curve involved not to be too steep.

[ThatBuckskin-Frank]

Me who just started learning Javascript:
👁👄👁

[pumpkin]

I am very fluent in vanilla JavaScript, wrote a few professional websites with only vanilla JavaScript. But I still fear libraries these are so overwhelming.

[TheAsbjrn]

love your short form content. please do more interesting facts about c#

[branchyapple]

Thats why i still program with 0 and 1's

[dabbopabblo]

AMEN. There’s something truly disgusting about asking someone what kind of language they are most familiar with and instead of replying back with JavaScript they reply back with I’m a react dev. THATS JAVASCRIPT FFS

[arshadsiddiqui]

I went to learn react on YouTube from fCC and realised I don't even know the base language lol. I mostly know the typical functional programming of it but am trash with regular query selection/dom modification/insertion.

In my defence I kinda glossed over it the first time I learnt it because I really badly wanted to get into frameworks. Luckily the use of jquery seems to just be for comparison with react at the moment and it's not holding me back yet...

[Rudxain]

JS alone (no dependencies, no frameworks, no Typescript) is already complex, it has a lot of technical debt and features that should be deprecated.

Global isNaN vs Number.isNaN, global isFinite vs Number.isFinite, `with` statement, a million ways to iterate (for, for of, for in, forEach, await for, iterator.next().value).

And the fact that almost everything is mutable (built-in own properties and prototype props are 100% mutable), makes it harder to maintain if some parts of the code accidentally mutate the standard library