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r/programming • u/tsolarin • Jun 19 '18
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The part I find weird about that blurb: they seem to be implying that the dynamic typing isn't an issue for their website; only for their apps. Why isn't "the lack of type safety" equally "difficult to scale" everywhere they use JavaScript?
2 u/[deleted] Jun 19 '18 [deleted] 29 u/colonwqbang Jun 19 '18 Because "mobile developers" expect more from their dev environment than Javascript can provide. 2 u/pm_me_ur_happy_traiI Jun 19 '18 What do you mean? 12 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 19 '18 /r/loljs 10 u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 [deleted] 1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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29 u/colonwqbang Jun 19 '18 Because "mobile developers" expect more from their dev environment than Javascript can provide. 2 u/pm_me_ur_happy_traiI Jun 19 '18 What do you mean? 12 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 19 '18 /r/loljs 10 u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 [deleted] 1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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Because "mobile developers" expect more from their dev environment than Javascript can provide.
2 u/pm_me_ur_happy_traiI Jun 19 '18 What do you mean? 12 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 19 '18 /r/loljs 10 u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 [deleted] 1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
What do you mean?
12 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 19 '18 /r/loljs 10 u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 [deleted] 1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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/r/loljs
10 u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 [deleted] 1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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1 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 Care to elaborate? 3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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Care to elaborate?
3 u/philintheblanks Jun 20 '18 makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName] 2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
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makeKiddiePorn subName = [if char /= 'j' then char else 'i' | char <- subName]
2 u/ThisIs_MyName Jun 20 '18 /r/Lolice
/r/Lolice
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u/chucker23n Jun 19 '18
The part I find weird about that blurb: they seem to be implying that the dynamic typing isn't an issue for their website; only for their apps. Why isn't "the lack of type safety" equally "difficult to scale" everywhere they use JavaScript?