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by jonny_eh 1508 days ago
"Too easy to get started" is just gate keeping.
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DrFell 1508 days ago
Reverse gate keeping, yeah. You built a fence around your safe zone, and locked yourself in.
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my69thaccount 1508 days ago
On one hand, JavaScript being easy makes programming accessible. On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse. So you can't say if it's bad or not.
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RussianCow 1508 days ago
> On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse.

What does this mean? It's an order of magnitude easier to build an app/service/whatever today than it was a decade ago. Having to maintain separate code paths for IE because it doesn't support many of the APIs and CSS features you need was "terrible"; by comparison, engineering today is heavenly.

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my69thaccount 1508 days ago
Engineering might be easier, the user experience is magnitudes worse than a decade ago, pretty much universally.
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kupopuffs 1508 days ago
it's not getting worse. you're just getting older
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jonny_eh 1508 days ago
100%. If people want to still use Wordperfect 5.1, they still can.
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wy35 1507 days ago
It’s not getting worse. Go ahead and make a relatively complex app with jQuery 2.0 and let me know how it compares to spinning up a Next.js app.
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my69thaccount 1507 days ago
Or better yet, you could use neither! If it helps you remember, JavaScript is bad, so more JavaScript is more bad.
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