JavaScript Is Not Expressive

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Please look at the extensions of JS in ES6 for better solutions of the problems you talk about in the article. Symbols for example

export const ADD_TODO = 'ADD_TODO'

Can be written as

export const ADD_TODO = Symbol()

Also:

The class statement that helps express the intention of a function.

The power of JS is that you can choose your own style and evolve the code between paradigms when you need to. Most other languages forces you to one paradigm.

C++, C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, and probably many other languages also support multiple paradigms. Few modern languages are deeply coupled with a paradigm, and the ones that are aren't popular.

I personally strongly prefer languages that force a paradigm and therefore decrease creativity and variation between coding styles.

Great point! I'd heard of symbols being added to Javascript but never made the connection to the widely-used :symbol syntax for naming constants in Ruby.

(I didn't write the article, just posted it)

TypeScript with tslint solved the specific problems mentioned here. That said, experienced devs know JS sucks, but we use it because it's popular. We need a better language that rivals JS in popularity.

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