I appreciate and respect your positivity. I didn't write this to shame people or dog on the community as much as I wrote this to hopefully just make people aware of what its like currently and to hopefully inspire change. All of which is not easy to highlight without calling out the current short comings that I'm seeing being trends. For the same reasons I think the destructuring assignment syntax is amazing is what I think the JS community needs more of. That is we need to make things readable again. I agree that will inevitably happen as we progress but, that is not an excuse as to why we can't start today. For as much as we push on the community to embrace new ecmascript standards and to avoid old trends for X reasons we almost never hear people say to follow some of the very basics of any program language.
…the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1.
We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new
code. Because this ratio is so high, we want the reading of code
to be easy even if it makes the writing harder.”
— Robert C. Martin
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
It's like we put so much energy into the new X thing thinking its gonna make our day that much better when in reality the truth was in plain sight hidden by our own doing.
Your worst enemy will hide in the last place you think to look.
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I appreciate and respect your positivity. I didn't write this to shame people or dog on the community as much as I wrote this to hopefully just make people aware of what its like currently and to hopefully inspire change. All of which is not easy to highlight without calling out the current short comings that I'm seeing being trends. For the same reasons I think the destructuring assignment syntax is amazing is what I think the JS community needs more of. That is we need to make things readable again. I agree that will inevitably happen as we progress but, that is not an excuse as to why we can't start today. For as much as we push on the community to embrace new ecmascript standards and to avoid old trends for X reasons we almost never hear people say to follow some of the very basics of any program language.
It's like we put so much energy into the new X thing thinking its gonna make our day that much better when in reality the truth was in plain sight hidden by our own doing.
Your worst enemy will hide in the last place you think to look.