Why Patching Globals Is Harmful

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Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve... See more
The Alternative Implementation Problem
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This isn't about any single library, but the JavaScript ecosystem as a whole. And I think we could learn a lot from the PHP ecosystem.
JavaScript can sometimes lead you to "analysis paralysis". There's many packages that do the same... See more
Lee Robinsonx.comA large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t... See more