<story><title>Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers</title><url>https://trackchanges.postlight.com/modern-javascript-for-ancient-web-developers-58e7cae050f9#.2tpky4xfc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>The trick to being successful with JavaScript is to relax and allow yourself to slightly sink into your office chair as a gelatinous blob of developer.&lt;p&gt;When you feel yourself getting all rigid and tense in the muscles, say, because you read an article about how you&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong or that your favourite libraries are dead-ends, just take a deep breath and patiently allow yourself to return to your gelatinous form.&lt;p&gt;Now I know what you&amp;#x27;re thinking,  &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s good and all, but I&amp;#x27;ll just slowly become an obsolete blob of goo in an over-priced, surprisingly uncomfortable, but good looking office chair. I like money, but at my company they don&amp;#x27;t pay the non-performing goo-balls.&amp;quot; Which is an understandable concern, but before we address it, notice how your butt no-longer feels half sore, half numb when in goo form, and how nice that kind of is. Ever wonder what that third lever under your chair does? Now&amp;#x27;s a perfect time to find out!&lt;p&gt;As long as you accept that you&amp;#x27;re always going to be doing it wrong, that there&amp;#x27;s always a newer library, and that your code will never scale infinitely on the first try, you&amp;#x27;ll find that you can succeed and remain gelatinous. Pick a stack then put on the blinders until its time to refactor&amp;#x2F;rebuild for the next order of magnitude of scaling, or the next project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>In my experience using last year&amp;#x27;s darling framework instead of this year&amp;#x27;s is an excellent way to go. The codebase is stable and full-featured, the plugin ecosystem is rich, the documentation is extensive, and stackoverflow is already filled with accepted answers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a myth that new languages and frameworks offer better productivity. Mostly it&amp;#x27;s just the flavor that&amp;#x27;s different, not the calories. Sometimes you get a genuine improvement, like react, but the vast majority of frameworks are completely optional when it comes to getting stuff done. I&amp;#x27;m always reminded of this when I observe the Delphi team at work. Still lapping any web developer when it comes to shipping features.</text></comment>
<story><title>Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers</title><url>https://trackchanges.postlight.com/modern-javascript-for-ancient-web-developers-58e7cae050f9#.2tpky4xfc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>The trick to being successful with JavaScript is to relax and allow yourself to slightly sink into your office chair as a gelatinous blob of developer.&lt;p&gt;When you feel yourself getting all rigid and tense in the muscles, say, because you read an article about how you&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong or that your favourite libraries are dead-ends, just take a deep breath and patiently allow yourself to return to your gelatinous form.&lt;p&gt;Now I know what you&amp;#x27;re thinking,  &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s good and all, but I&amp;#x27;ll just slowly become an obsolete blob of goo in an over-priced, surprisingly uncomfortable, but good looking office chair. I like money, but at my company they don&amp;#x27;t pay the non-performing goo-balls.&amp;quot; Which is an understandable concern, but before we address it, notice how your butt no-longer feels half sore, half numb when in goo form, and how nice that kind of is. Ever wonder what that third lever under your chair does? Now&amp;#x27;s a perfect time to find out!&lt;p&gt;As long as you accept that you&amp;#x27;re always going to be doing it wrong, that there&amp;#x27;s always a newer library, and that your code will never scale infinitely on the first try, you&amp;#x27;ll find that you can succeed and remain gelatinous. Pick a stack then put on the blinders until its time to refactor&amp;#x2F;rebuild for the next order of magnitude of scaling, or the next project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barking</author><text>I am a vb6 developer and I approve this message.</text></comment>