Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "You Don't Know JavaScript" video.

There's a worryingly massive overlap between people who code in javascript and people who have no idea how binary floating point works. Almost as if web development attracts the most unscrupulous types.
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@dolurosu programmer who does not even know the basics? I doubt there's any value in such a programmer.
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There are rational reasons beyond those weird behaviours for javascript to be considered ill-designed. Like, no integers - really?!?
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@EdwinMartin a lot less people would be using binary floating point to represent monetary data, to start with. Far easier to stop and think, and use a proper decimal fixed-point if you have an actual integer type. Not to mention all the bit-fiddling that make things more efficient and overall more understandable.
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Decision to design a weakly-typed language is genuinely bad. Decision to design a language with separate statements and expressions, yet pretending to have functional features is bad. Decision to design a language without an integer type support is abysmally bad. Decision to design a language with a default dynamic scoping (and then to have an audacity to claim being influenced by Scheme) is unforgibable.
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@arcuscerebellumus8797 you're saying that the overwhelming majority of "developers" are code monkeys who do not understand even the most basic foundations of their trade? It does not surprise me, though I usually avoid calling them "developers". And, no, this kind of "developers" is pretty much useless and I would not trust them with getting anything done, at all. You can see the outcome of such "development" in the examples like the currently hyped Horizon IT scandal.
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@marcelo-ramos are they really "programmers" then?
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@arcuscerebellumus8797 this attitude is exactly what got us to the Horizon scandal.
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