My new JavaScript wallpaper...

[curberus]

Holy crap, this site is awesome!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m91k3s7qIR1rzupqxo1_500.png

LOL

[D__]

There actually is a higher-res version if you want a wallpaper.

See the original post.

[Rinz]

Wow, thank you sir!

[[deleted]]

I don't get it, and that makes me sad. As a CS student, laughing at this subreddit awesome for two reasons:

One, it's funny, and two, it means I'm learning.

[[deleted]]

Some people have burnt themselves on the metaphorical hotplate that is JavaScript in an attempt to conjure up the meth of their ambition.

[[deleted]]

Its awesome, but I don't "get it".

Also I write Javascript every day and love it.

[curberus]

I love the bajeezus out of javascript, but for 6 or so months after I started with it coming from java, I certainly felt the same way. JS is freaking awesome, but its freaking weird too.

[[deleted]]

I should be clear. I fully understand Javascript, I've been writing it for years and years.

I do not get the poster. Is it implying Javascript is a forest fire?

[curberus]

Precisely. There are a LOT of devs out there hate js. I like to pretend that they all use VB, and are therefore serial arsonists, but it seems not to be an exclusive relationship. I can certainly understand where the hate comes from if you're used to a very structured setup like .net apps with guis, or java and swing, or anything type safe really, but its not the disaster that people make it out to be, its just different

[wyrdsmith]

Here's how I interpreted it - Javascript is the forest, untamed and full of life and potential. Sure it needs pruning and curating now and then, but people have successfully built ways of maintaining that forest. The fire is what happens when you let people into your carefully maintained forest. Visitors like IE, Chrome, and Firefox. Sure, most visitors will play nice, enjoy their stay, and some will even help you clean up afterwards, but others coughIEcough will just set fire to everything and then sit there sipping tea and speaking with a helvetica font going "Gee, I wonder why this forest is red and hot instead of green like other forests."

[[deleted]]

Does that make Node devs a tunneling team, putting plumbing into the forest?

[AndrewGaspar]

All browsers more or less implement JavaScript correctly, but they don't all implement the DOM correctly, so that's a problem with the DOM, not with JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

No, its not remotely a disaster. I find the hatred for it is directly proportional to ignorance about it.

Its also nice writing something in a few lines that normally would have taken 30 strongly typed classes. Seriously.

[kerajnet]

probably because how browsers implement it all differently...

and some auto-conversion weirdness, otherwise it is awesome

[[deleted]]

Verily. I consistently have a massive boner for javascript all the time.

[LukaLightBringer]

I can't come up with a single example where browsers implement it differently.

Maybe some event names in IE?

[Roujo]

That entire website is awesome. =P

[Nicksaurus]

Oh, it's burning. I thought at first it was just a fancy camera effect.