| ▲ | curtisblaine 5 hours ago | |
> JavaScript is an imperative language that browser wars, framework trends, and open-source maintainer preferences reshaped every few years. It rewards you for keeping up. > Take a React component from 2015 Javascript is actually fully backwards-compatible, to not break the Web. Any javascript from 10 years ago works in the browser. This is good but also a bit of a burden, since the language can only expand but not shrink. React is a library, and like all libraries it has breaking versions. Not understanding the basic difference between the two kinda undermines the credibility of the article. Also, in a similar way, core, ANSI SQL is largely backwards compatible, but all the SQL dialects linked to various DBMS implementation are generally incompatible. Obviously that's not mentioned in the article. > Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, query plans. Not text written by a human. Not a style that an real writer would ever use. Actual AI slop: Short sentences. Incorrect facts. Not X, Y. | ||
| ▲ | kibibu 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, query plans. My brain absolutely checks out when I read this stuff now. Not to mention that query plans are absolutely not "actual SQL". | ||
| ▲ | llbbdd 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
An article laser-targeted at HN's front page, making tantalizingly negative and easily disprovable claims about Javascript? Perish the thought. | ||