Douglas Crockford: Really. JavaScript.

[AdrienBeITube]

One thing the description should mention: this video is from 2010 (April).
The fact that it was posted on Youtube in 2013 leads to confusion.

[margareth]

wow, had my volume turned up really loud and that "AARR!" at the beginning scared me to death 😂😂

[edgeeffect]

Thank you Douglas for possibly the single most important software book I ever read! Not only did it teach me functional programming, it also showed me that a language (any language) can have good parts and bad parts.

[christophertown]

I've coded for 16 years (including javascript), and this video filled-in the gaps in my understanding. Thank you!

[vishnutekale]

As always, very good.... Real Legand.

[thohangst]

Well, here we are, 14ish years after this was filmed. JS is still going strong. es6 takes care of a lot of the bad parts, and TypeScript is a pretty good piece of tooling.

[roblevintennis]

Who's your daddy...Crockford's your daddy! But seriously, thanks to his book and vids I "opened up" to JavaScript a few years ago and haven't looked back! Always love his presentations; nice!

[tarathetechchick]

I lol-d so hard at "Security by inconvenience" :-)

[moshemalka]

Links:
On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules

The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Secure Computing
The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Secure Computing

[clivegrant]

Usually the msb is the sign bit. So if adding 0xx..xx to 0xx..xx overflows into the sign bit, the result.is negative unless the overflow is caught as an error.

[jjames]

Here is a variant of aspects to solve the mashup problem. The building block is a component, and components are composed in packages. There is a notion of A being a subcomponent of B. One package may incorporate a parameterization of another. A package may declare an equality between two components.

Syntax:
"A for B" A is a subcomponent of B
"A is B" A is the same component as B

The algorithm for mashups is:

If (A for B) is (C for D), first mash B with D
If (A for B) is (C for B)...
If (A for B) is abstract, set (A for B) = (C for B)
If (A for B) and (C for B) are both concrete, mash A with C

The definition of "mash" can be different for each type of component. E.g. it could mean, "take the union of the members."

Packages can also be forced to obey additional properties, which the weaver must prove in order to complete a solution to a mashup.

[tomatopotato]

I was promised sexual content, language and nudity.

[Ioan]

35:38 I don't understand, how Ajax library looks like?

[ErnestLebedev]

Loved the applause at 32nd min when Douglas predicted the death of IE6 :D

[Nikita-po]

The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Secure Computing (Marc Stiegler) ?v=eL5o4PFuxTY
It has been referenced in the video

[reyou]

He says Threads are evil. I can mostly agree. However, if I have multicore machine and cannot create new threads through tasks how I will get benefit out of it? Will javascript use only single core forever?

[scoreunder]

Mashups are nothing new - they're a lesson that Unix taught us, the lesson that mashups are good and that dumb utilities working together can be very clever indeed.

[kevincloinger]

Where did he get the ie6 number from please?

[Sentient]

I like everything he said except the one Java comment about bytecode. JVM startup time is slow, but not because of the intermediate bytecode. That's just silly.

[RashidOmar]

Douglas Crockford === javascript // true