Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
A presentation recorded at Web Directions Code 2012.
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7 responses to “JavaScript: Enter The Dragon – Dmitry Baranovskiy”
Dmitry!! You're so cool man. Thanks for making me want to implement JavaScript in better more efficient ways and hate it at the same!
For anyone watching this save yourself the trouble. Start at about 15 minutes in where he actually gives you an idea of what is important to understand about javascript. You can stop watching about about the 26 minute mark.
Everything else before and after is him talking about the sad state of affairs in the javascript world. Javascript is such a catastrophically horrible language, at least syntactically. But as he says, form follows function.
This was en excellent talk! Very motivational 🙂
He seems competent enough to me; but in your chauvinism you seem to forget that generally reading (and listening, depending on the speaker) a language is significantly easier than writing and speaking – especially for a language like English.
He has an accent, but he is perfectly understandable. His English is very good.
Thought this was a good motivational talk to encourage trying to be a better Javascript programmer.
A good video but ironic given a poor level of English. Did he really read the English language specs?
Great quote: "There are no excuses to suck at anything."