[M4v3R]

If the post was titled "In-depth look at Javascript" or something, I might've skip it. This title piqued my interest because I write Javascript for living for a long time and I was genuinely wondering what I don't know yet about the language.

[gondo]

and did you learn anything new? just wondering

[nailer]

There's a bunch of stuff here even folk with a few years may not know. See the generators section at https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async...

Learning JS is very different from other languages in that there's greater amounts of misinformation (lots of people know it, but prefer to use it as little as possible), and it changes faster. For example, in 2015:

- you won't find any Python new articles that tell you to use Python 1's 'strings' module

- You'll still see things like <script> tag soup, 'JS isn't object oriented', globals and patchable-ES3-isms in new JS articles.

Kyle Simpson is a well known JS speaker and O Reilly author - his books are a great source of current best practice.

[inglor]

I've read the book and even contributed a tiny tiny bit with issues in GH (the book is managed through GH). While I didn't learn much I did gain perspective about things so I'd say reading it was definitely worth my time.

[_getify]

Just wanted to say I appreciate any contributions (even "tiny tiny bit") you've made on GH. :)

[M4v3R]

Didn't read the whole thing yet :). But glancing through it it seems that I really have some stuff to learn about Javascript internals.

[imdsm]

Likewise. I'll read the books on Safari Books Online using the work subscription, just to fill in the gaps. I'm pretty sure I will actually learn something.