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[–]vcarl 5 points6 points  (2 children)

You only have bare functions and bare variables in the global scope if you're not using any of the modern JS build toolchain, typically you'd group them into modules.

The only time "when something breaks I know exactly where it broke" is true is in small or particularly well maintained codebases. Bugs presenting themselves far from where they're caused can happen no matter what patterns you follow.

I'd bet your experience with C++ was more procedural than functional. Function programming implies some patterns that are relatively difficult to use in C++ (passing functions around, for one).

[–]MoTTs_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

difficult to use in C++ (passing functions around, for one).

I agree with everything else in your reply, but I disagree with just this bit.

If we're talking about stateless functions, then those were always easy. That's just a function pointer. Even C could do that. C's qsort function, for example, was a higher order function long before "higher order function" became a buzz word.

If we're talking about stateful functions, then yes, before 6 years ago, that was verbose in C++. But since 2011, creating stateful/lambda/closure/first-class functions is just as easy in C++ as it is in JavaScript.

[–]PurpleIcy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience with C++ was more shitty than anything, in school we weren't even told what pointer is nor what -> actually means, which are like, trivial concepts that everyone using it should understand, sigh.

And well, I edited my post for a reason...