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The problem with JavaScript
The talk by Armağan Amcalar highlights the evolution of JavaScript and its developer community, emphasizing the challenges and misconceptions surrounding the language and its frameworks. Amcalar critiques the cyclical nature of technological trends, advocating for a scientific approach to technology selection based on practicality and productivity rather than trends. He concludes by encouraging developers to focus on creating value and understanding the importance of genuine open-source contributions.
The problem with JavaScript
- 1. THE PROBLEM WITH JAVASCRIPT ArmaganAmcalar PHPKonf Istanbul, May 4, 2019
- 2. ARMAĞAN AMCALAR Senior Manager@ Wayfair Building and leading teams for almost 10 years Passionate about open source Lonca, a software craftsmanship school for women International speaker dashersw dashersw
- 3. IF YOU THINKSOMETHING IS WRONG WITH JAVASCRIPT, OR ITS USERS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. …and you are not wrong dashersw
- 4. WHAT YOU’LL GETFROM THIS TALK
- 5. JUST A LITTLEHISTORY …FOR CONTEXT
- 6. <html> <head> <title> AddNew Customer </title> </head> <body background="blue_marble.gif"> <img src="billlog2.gif"> <server> if ( project.lock() ) { project.lastID = 1 + project.lastID; client.customerID = project.lastID; project.unlock(); } </server> <h1>Add a New Customer</h1> <p>Note: <b>All</b> fields are required for the new customer</p> <p>ID:</p> <server> write("<STRONG><FONT COLOR="#00FF00">" +project.lastID + "</FONT></STRONG>"); </server> </body> </html>
- 7. DHTML FIRST GENERATION OFJAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 8. BROWSER WARS OH THOSEINNOCENT DAYS… dashersw
- 9. 2005-2006 — JQUERYAND OTHERS SECOND GENERATION OF JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 10. 2008 — GOOGLECAME ONBOARD. AND CHANGED EVERYTHING. dashersw
- 11. dashersw REMEMBER, WITH GOOGLE, YOUARE THE PRODUCT.
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- 13. CHROME IS TOIE & FIREFOX WHAT APPLE IS TO NOKIA & MOTOROLA. dashersw
- 14. CAN YOU IMAGINEA WORLD WITHOUT STACKOVERFLOW AND GITHUB? THEY CAME OUT IN 2008. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE? dashersw
- 15. 2010 — BACKBONE& ANGULAR, MVC FRAMEWORKS THIRD GENERATION OF JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 16. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD WHATMVC IS. IT WAS A BROKEN COPY OF BACKEND MVC FRAMEWORKS, WHICH ARE ALREADY BROKEN. dashersw
- 17. WELCOME CORPORATIONS GOOGLE, MICROSOFTAND FACEBOOK DISCOVER OPEN-SOURCE dashersw
- 18. WHAT IS TRULYOPEN SOURCE? dashersw
- 19. VIRTUAL DOM HINT: IT’SA BAD IDEA. dashersw
- 20. COMPONENT DESIGN HINT: IT’SNOT ENOUGH. dashersw
- 21. ENTER SVELTE THE MAGICALDISAPPEARING FRAMEWORK dashersw
- 22. WHEN WILL THISHYPE END? BABEL WEBPACK COFFEESCRIPT GULP GRUNT SASS TYPESCRIPT EMBER FLOW REDUX ROLLUP SERVER-SIDE RENDERING dashersw
- 23. WHAT IS THEPROBLEM? dashersw
- 24. WHAT IS THEPROBLEM? dashersw
- 25. THIS IS GENERATIONAL HELLOGEN Y PEOPLE! dashersw
- 26. PROBLEMS WITH ATTENTION, DEDICATION,EFFORT AND OWNERSHIP dashersw
- 27. TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICES ARE DRIVENBY LUST. dashersw
- 28. THE CURSE OFJAVASCRIPT dashersw
- 29. BARRIER TO ENTRYIS LOW YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IN JAVASCRIPT IT RUNS EVERYWHERE dashersw
- 30. BY NOW, JAVASCRIPTIS A META- LANGUAGE dashersw
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- 32. BUT INSTEAD OFGOING FORWARD, WE ARE GOING IN LOOPS! dashersw
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- 34. WE DID THAT,IT DIDN’T WORK, WE INVENTED SINGLE-PAGE APPLICATIONS BECAUSE IT DIDN’T WORK. dashersw
- 35. WHAT IS THEUNDERLYING PROBLEM? dashersw
- 36. GENERATIONS CHANGE. WE DON’TSTUDY THE PAST. YET WE KNOW BETTER. dashersw
- 37. WHAT IS THESOLUTION? dashersw
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- 39. DON’T BELIEVE, EXPERIMENT.WORK WITH FALSIFIABLE TRUTHS. dashersw
- 40. RISE ON THESHOULDERS OF GIANTS. dashersw
- 41. HOW TO CHOOSEA TECHNOLOGY dashersw
- 42. SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO AMOUNT OFBOILERPLATE INTUITIVENESS CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ITS CODE? CAN YOU DEBUG IT? CAN YOU FORK AND CUSTOMIZE IT? dashersw
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- 44. NUMBER OF QUESTIONS& ANSWERS ON STACKOVERFLOW IS NOT A GOOD METRIC. NUMBER OF ISSUES ON GITHUB IS NOT A GOOD METRIC. dashersw
- 45. YOU DON’T WANTA TECHNOLOGY THAT REQUIRES CONSTANT GOOGLING FOR THE MOST TRIVIAL THINGS. dashersw
- 46. WHY ARE YOUPROGRAMMING? dashersw
- 47. TO CREATE VALUE. ANDTHE ONLY METRIC YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT IS PRODUCTIVITY. dashersw
- 48. BEING UNCOOL ISCOOL. dashersw
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- 50. THANK YOU! LET’S KEEPIN TOUCH! ARMAĞAN AMCALAR armagan@amcalar.com dashersw dashersw