• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I really don’t understand how people work with Js. What blows my mind is that people choose to use it on the server voluntarily when there are so many better options available.

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        1 month ago

        People could stand to spend an extra 5 mins to learn about the different tools at their disposal

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          I noticed an interesting pattern over the years where a lot of people are willing to spend inordinate amounts of time learning libraries and tools within the ecosystem they’re familiar with, but they tend to have little interest stepping out of it. I guess there’s a certain level of comfort you develop with a language and then you just don’t want to spend the time to learn others.

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            Oh completely… Its sometimes the weird syntax that freaks people out. I mean it helps to know multiple languages in life why not in tech? I have heard from so many people that they can’t follow some code examples just cause it’s in lisp but using descriptive var and function names … Nope… They still can’t

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              Amusingly, I find s-exp syntax is one of the easiest to read now because it’s so regular and predictable. Since all the logic has to be expressed using data structures, you can’t add a bunch of weird rules to the syntax. On top of that, the code acts as a diagram so you can see relationships visually by looking at the nesting.

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                Truely an underrated concept. But you don’t get the nerd points for understanding memory management… And isn’t that what programming is all about