Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Programmers are also human" channel.

@JDLuke I've been writing code for daily work over 20 years and I think JS is actually a good language but nearly all the libraries (e.g. nearly anything you can get with npm) are written by people who don't understand the language. I mean, prototype inheritance, function hoisting and closure work different to any other language so you should understand those before you try to create libraries for other people.
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@wybren How about the code you wrote 7 years ago? I've run git blame multiple times to get the result that some specific line was actually written by myself when I was thinking it must have been written by somebody else in the team.
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@ilikecanes Good point. The problem with JavaScript is that it looks pretty much like C or Java but it works different. Many people with background using different languages but JavaScript are just lazy and never bother to learn the things that make JavaScript pretty different in reality. The problem of JavaScript is that it appears to mostly work even if you don't understand the concepts I mentioned. It's only when you try to write more complex software with it when lack of understanding is really hitting you.
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The modern JS development is so complex because companies are not willing to use enough time to really build everything for real. As a result, they just pile a lots of modules with npm and use barely 5% from each module for the final product but have to debug all the issues in all the modules. And if you ever run "npm audit" in such code, you'll have nightmares for a month because it will be full of security holes via dependencies of dependencies and fixing all of those will be next to impossible without using a lot of time – which wasn't allowed from the start, remember?
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Seems legit.
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The only joke in this video is the beard, the rest is 100% real for many JS developers, unfortunately.
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