Hm, lately I have seen several trollish, anti-JavaScript posts here. Why?
While I like Haskell, and functional programming in general, I think this article is more Haskell and other FP languages related, than JavaScript-related. After all the article is about "how to avoid using JavaScript".
You are right.
And trying to give the benefit of the doubt, I thought that maybe he was only ignorant of those and wasn't his intent to be a troll.
But then I found this line at the end:
"Never forget that Javascript hates you".
sigh.
This was already posted: http://www.echojs.com/news/9470
Well, this one is on youtube, but I think it would be better on the comments of that other post.
In the past, if you had a religious view against the norm, you were looked down and receive different kind of attacks.
Now we think we are modern and tolerant.
But the truth is that you only get tolerance if you think the way is politically correct.
In the moment you have a different idea that is against from what the majority of people think about what is wrong or right, people will point at you and call you "intolerant", not very different from the way they used to point at you and yell "fornicator!" in the past.
Now, I'm NOT defending his ideas, but I think that being CEO or not, ideally should have nothing to do with them.
But this post is even worse.
So now not only he can't be CEO of mozilla, something that is not gay marriage related, but also it seems he should not have a job at all. Whats next? Spit at him on the street?
Tolerance is about to tolerate something you DON'T agree.
It's not about ONLY "tolerate" things you actually like and agree.
Agree with jayfallon; there are almost no comments because most of the time a big discussion is not needed.
Example:
Someone post about a tutorial to use grunt and browserify.
What kind of comments it would have in that scenario?
"oh yet another tutorial for browserify"
"ah browserify sucks, requirejs rules!"
"oh good, I been waiting to try browerify!"
"hey! browserify doesn't suck!"
"grunt? gulp ftw!"
I don't think that kind of silly comments would make the community any good. I don't think it would help to grow the community, except that maybe it would attract trolls.
Right now, people comment when they *really* have something to say, and I think is better this way.
"The problem with JavaScript is not that it is a dynamically typed prototype based object-oriented language without classes. That is actually JavaScript’s strength."
Bravo! Agree, loose typing is great.