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Comment by egeozcan | Hacker News Reader

> The cost of writing JavaScript is just too high

Every time I see such strongly worded statements, I get amazed by how the authors got to analyze the skills of every developer in the world.

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Usually, to calm myself, I reword it like this :

For us/In my opinion, the cost of writing Javascript is just too high.

See? Now the rage is gone! I think I'm going to sell this trick...

I was taught in early rhetoric and composition classes that it is poor style to include "In my opinion" and other qualifiers in pieces that are clearly rhetorical or opinion based. The repetition is unneeded. In engineering discussions it is very common to differentiate between opinions and knowns. When discussions happen between people who don't agree on these things, someone gets annoyed. The engineers get annoyed when people state opinions as fact and think the other person is making unjustified assumptions. The non-engineers get annoyed and think that the other person is being pedantic.

This is not a statement about the skills of other developers. This is a statement about the applicability of JavaScript to the sorts of problems people are trying to solve with it. There are a lot of nice things about JavaScript that people didn't quite understand or appreciate in the early days, but that doesn't change the fact that the HTML5 stack is deeply flawed in many ways for the needs of application developers. That shouldn't be surprising or controversial: All of these technologies were developed in a simpler time for a simpler set of problems.... and in a rush.

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