Say whatever you want about how shitty I am below, literally won't see it. Waste all the time you'd like, idiots :)

@JustThat You are 100% an idiot. :)

@N00bPancakes

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/...
https://medium.com/javascript-scene...

Both agree with me that they provide little more than constant bindings.

https://web.archive.org/web/...

The spec draft mentions scoping, but as I said earlier, they could have approached this entirely differently. We had linters before const/let, too, that enforced that we used proper coding standards, just like we do now.

Sorry, but my original point is still. a hill I'm dying on.

@bittersweet I got my information from Al Jazeera. I still consider them western media when I read them in English.

I live in Europe so I feel as though I get pretty decent mixes of information, too. However I still consider it a "western" perspective. That's all I was saying.

I am not being willfully ignorant, but I'm also not pretending I am Burmese. Therefore, I'm being selectively ignorant :)

@AleCx04

1. I am american, I can state whichever generalizations I would like to.
2. You making generalizations about germans is racist, too.
3. No, I just refuse to engage with idiots.
4. America is not a race. lol.

@N00bPancakes Well, it didn't really help immutability now did it?

@N00bPancakes Hoisting was an issue they wanted to fix anyway, and could have done so using a directive like I said before. But instead, the whole "immutable everything" fad was popular at the time and thus there was a strong push for const variables and readability.

@bittersweet Fair enough :)

About 6.

I get the frustration - I do, really - but to be entirely fair, DOCX is a garbage, nonsense file format.

To the uninitiated, a DOCX file is a ZIP file with XML files inside. Yes, really.

What a knave.

Most likely because windows filesystem operations are super slow compared to ext4 on macos.

Also, npm shims most of its code to work on windows, whereas it's originally designed for unix-like systems (macos included).

Also, everyone at npm develops on a macos - at least, they did when I knew them and visited their offices - just like most of silicon valley.

She answered your question, you just didn't like the answer.

Catastrophic success.

I don't mind them, but that isn't the point. Since then, the TC39 committee has had a real knack for adding weird things that didn't need to be in a scripting language. WebAssembly makes way more sense, as much as I dislike the direction all of this is headed to begin with.

@JustThat this many. I switched off of github for personal projects about a month and a half ago, hence the falloff.

And no, I didn't disagree with OP. You're just choosing to misinterpret my texts as malicious because you can't seem to imagine a world with non-extreme nuance. Typical American.

Have a good one!

@C0D4

> Lock down master, no one should have direct access to push to master

I agree in scenarios where you cannot trust 100% of the team to do good work. It's rare that this isn't the case, but there are situations where pushing to master is OK. I've only ever been on one team where I'd feel comfortable doing that again, though.

In most cases, I agree, especially the case OP has illustrated.

@JustThat I don't post links to my github for obvious reasons, but I'm sure looking forward to your ominous "I bet you're scared we'll see how bad your code is" attempt at a comeback.

I don't really like your attitude to be quite honest. You come off as a humble-braggy type of douchebag that I really don't have the time nor the energy for.

I agree with the OP's text. It is you who are extrapolating falsities from what I'm saying and attempting to use them against me. It's poor form and a sign that you have a weak argument.

Further, you're being a bit of a dick about it, and I don't have the energy nor the interest to really react more than this (final) message to you.

Go be a white knight somewhere else lol.

@JustThat Guess I'm toxic, then. Lol.

You're also really good at skewing words and putting them in my mouth. Maybe try to do that less.

@Flygger They could have created a new directive akin to use strict. That would have made more sense IMO.

@bittersweet I can't read any of that nonsense, that's why I don't like Haskell. It uses way too much symbology and creates terse, unreadable code IMO.

I'm a pretty firm believer that a language should be at least understandable but someone who knows a few languages even if they don't know that language. Haskell does not fit that bill.

@nibor Mmk, well I don't know you nor do I know your background and I choose not to believe you lol

@nitwhiz I do, and the issue isn't with hoisting. I'm glad that's gone, but they could have gotten rid of that without const and let.

Const and let were added specifically for code readability, not optimization. It is trivial via SSA form to see which variables are modified and which are not; no optimizations are happening because of const or let.

@Lensflare namely, which version of Babel is being used, or which bundler you're using.

I fucking hate what the Javascript ecosystem has become.

Plunging Myanmar back into a military rule :/ They were like that for decades and finally got a glimmer of hope at democracy until the military leader took power again. He sounds like a terrible dude but I only know what western media is telling me.

@nibor I've been writing code for 20 years. Most people who do not care to write code in their free time whatsoever generally have the worst overall code quality in the entire company.

You simply cannot learn to be a well-rounded, technology-groking programmer by working at a 9-5 unless you have the world's best employer letting you do whatever you want during the day.

I would implore someone to prove me wrong.

This doesn't sound good. Components shouldn't be fetching data.

@nibor Yep you misinterpreted my comment. What I said is absolutely not bullshit.

@LotsOfCaffeine %g

There's a difference between "programming as a hobby" and "only hobby is programming".

If you don't program for a hobby, you're not going to be a very good programmer. I've never seen or heard of a person where this isn't the case. Anyone who tries to claim this IS the case, probably isn't a good programmer themselves.

However, that doesn't mean programming is your only hobby, and I'd be surprised if anyone seriously suggested that it was. I'd like to think I spend more time programming than the vast majority of programmers (I sit at my computer >8 hours a day at this point, usually programming) but I have other hobbies as well, naturally.

Lastly, if anyone gives you a hard time about having other hobbies, or having programming as a hobby, laugh in their face and pee on their shoes or something. They deserve as much.

EDIT: Also, you don't need to be a GOOD programmer to be a programmer. Know your limits, and be comfortable within them.

Exactly. Stick to men, we're easier.