Walking Away From JavaScript

I made it bois, prime reacted.

JavaScript developer shocked: learns that bloat is actually bad

Cody is great. Super honest and not trying to put on a facade. His videos feel like a chatting with a co-worker on a Thursday afternoon when no one wants to work on bugs anymore and just wanna chat about fun tech.

Prime has turned the 15 minute video into an hour-long video once again. Hooray 🎉.

2:53 I inherited a code base once from a guy who was obsessed with Ramda. After realizing I didn't understand what was going on I started rewriting more and more of the code to actually get rid of it. In the end everyone finally understood what was actually going on and we could quickly identify the bugs that had been in the app from the start.

This reminds me of the Futurama episode where the Professor makes this monstrosity of a machine that pumps out barrels of toxic waste to just produce individual glow in the dark rubber noses. These library’s and frameworks feel like running a giant diesel powered freight train engine just to power your coffee pot.

15 minute video into one hour and 7 minutes, what a reaction

@13:18 there is a great video by the V8 devs that talks about this; basically the V8 optimizer can see your structure and minimize the memory usage because it knows the shape - the caveat is that if you start doing stupid stuff like appending keys into that object, it falls over and can't optimize it out.

Frontend engineers rediscovering backend languages is wild to watch.

This is on par with best dev convos I've seen hahaha! Love your work mate!