If in a room full of developers, I am an "average" developer, but I also tend to approach things logically. I do my research and choose the appropriate tool to get the job done efficiently, with code that is generally accepted by the greatest user base. My clients would not want me to hand them over a product that could not be easily understood and modified by other average developers, "Anyone know a Python developer?", "No, but I know someone that works with Ruby"... In the real world this is incredibly ridiculous.
The term "average developer" is also looked upon poorly on this board, and unfortunately, this being 2014, people should not require a 4 year degree to code, code should have evolved enough by now that average people should be able to put words and thoughts into simple code and have it do what is intended. It is the hardcore developers that overcomplicate what should be incredibly simple.
A business term, "Where there is pain, there is opportunity", and I hear all of the time, so-called hard-core programmers with their noses up complaining about JS. I come from a world where you do not complain about something without presenting a solution, and of all these posts there is hardly anything worthy of a "solution". Apparently there is a lot of pain towards JS, so maybe one of you smart people should chase the opportunity to build a solution; just understand that no matter how perfect you think your alternative is, if no one uses it, it is useless.
I use JS as a carpenter would use his hammer, I don't complain about the hammer, but if one of you smart folk were to build a better hammer that saved me time and money, I would surely use it.
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If in a room full of developers, I am an "average" developer, but I also tend to approach things logically. I do my research and choose the appropriate tool to get the job done efficiently, with code that is generally accepted by the greatest user base. My clients would not want me to hand them over a product that could not be easily understood and modified by other average developers, "Anyone know a Python developer?", "No, but I know someone that works with Ruby"... In the real world this is incredibly ridiculous. The term "average developer" is also looked upon poorly on this board, and unfortunately, this being 2014, people should not require a 4 year degree to code, code should have evolved enough by now that average people should be able to put words and thoughts into simple code and have it do what is intended. It is the hardcore developers that overcomplicate what should be incredibly simple. A business term, "Where there is pain, there is opportunity", and I hear all of the time, so-called hard-core programmers with their noses up complaining about JS. I come from a world where you do not complain about something without presenting a solution, and of all these posts there is hardly anything worthy of a "solution". Apparently there is a lot of pain towards JS, so maybe one of you smart people should chase the opportunity to build a solution; just understand that no matter how perfect you think your alternative is, if no one uses it, it is useless. I use JS as a carpenter would use his hammer, I don't complain about the hammer, but if one of you smart folk were to build a better hammer that saved me time and money, I would surely use it.