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@prologic I can agree on JSX and similar but I must say that arrow functions, classes and so on are quite nice once you get used to them.
I too ended up wanting less and less but exactly for that reason I really enjoy those new stuff the platform offers natively.
Anyway, I'll keep your style as much as I can. 👍
@justamoment Thanks! I appreciate it 😅 (mostly for my sanity)
I just wanted you to understand something, I respect your opinion that arrow-functions and classes are _maybe_ a good thing, I don't think so personally but that doesn't matter 🤣 The truth is I have a strong bias towards readability, and languages that opt for obscure and abrupt/blunt syntax are hard to read, hard to maintain and often even hard to reason about 🤗
@justamoment Thanks! I appreciate it 😅 (mostly for my sanity)
I just wanted you to understand something, I respect your opinion that arrow-functions and classes are _maybe_ a good thing, I don't think so personally but that doesn't matter 🤣 The truth is I have a strong bias towards readability, and languages that opt for obscure and abrupt/blunt syntax are hard to read, hard to maintain and often even hard to reason about 🤗
@prologic No problem! 👍
I can understand your reasoning and i know the pure syntax is not the only part involved when developing in general.
I guess when a programming language changes a lot it's much harder to adapt and break habits.
Having a clear idea of what you expect from your code and language is a lifesaver when working with many people, ever more in open source projects like yarn.
Keep it up! 💪😎
@justamoment This is absolutely spot on 👌 It's probably like the reason I moved away from Python, after having been an avid Pythonita for over 15 years (as they call it); I gave up on the language after Python 3 really became a thing, the syntax, the readability, the reasoning and even the stupid concurrency model is just all well umm silly to me. What was a beautifully simple and elegant language, with low cognitive overheads, high productivity, just turned into what is (IHMO) a mess. 😅
So I turned to Go and love it 😍
@justamoment This is absolutely spot on 👌 It's probably like the reason I moved away from Python, after having been an avid Pythonita for over 15 years (as they call it); I gave up on the language after Python 3 really became a thing, the syntax, the readability, the reasoning and even the stupid concurrency model is just all well umm silly to me. What was a beautifully simple and elegant language, with low cognitive overheads, high productivity, just turned into what is (IHMO) a mess. 😅
So I turned to Go and love it 😍
@prologic Yeah, I was planning to try it myself in the future, there's seems to be lot of other Python developers that made the switch for the same reason.
I prefer working on the frontend the most, but I'll surely get my hands on it sooner or later. 😎
@prologic I love most of the modern Javascript syntax, including arrow functions (this doesn't include JSX, which *is not Javascript* and I *hate* it 🙈) but I do agree that terseness can go too far to the point of getting in the way of readability – definitely an issue with Python IMO. Honestly the only good thing about Python in my opinion is the ecosystem, particularly for data science.
I do like Go from my very limited experience with it; I will definitely be using it more.
@caesar Yeah, I'll probably be making some kind of toy project in Go to test it out and see how it fit me when empty handed. 😏