Comment Grammerly (Score 1) 40
Well, that's Grammerly screwed
Well, that's Grammerly screwed
A huge problem with JavaScript, compared to other languages, is that its standard library is totally lacking, even after 20 years of existence.
A lot of common library functionality that Java, C#, Perl, Ruby, Python, Tcl, Go and even C++ include by default just aren't present when using JavaScript. Or worse, if JavaScript does include some functionality it's often really shitty, sometimes to the point of being unusable.
could you cite some examples? It would be interesting to know more on this.
So if you're using JavaScript you pretty much have no choice but to start using external packages almost right away. That's why npm has become so widely used: it's because JavaScript itself is so goddamn lacking in the most basic of ways.
I think it depends on the developer, to be fair. You could install Ruby gems like crazy if you were that way inclined. Also, you have to bear in mind that JavaScript developers don't have total control over their runtime (on the client), so you get a lot of polyfill type packages to, as you say, start right away.
Npm is basically a bandage that you have to apply to JavaScript to make it even barely usable. And you have to apply it for pretty much each and every project written in JavaScript.
OK, but, NPM is just a package manager. In other languages, you get the package manager as part of the language itself and then not think much more about it. You'd *have* to apply it for each JavaScript project, because you don't get anything by default.
What the BBC badly need to do, is revert the show to its old format - one main presenter (e.g. Dr Lintott) expounding on Astronomy, plus *relevant* guest experts, and loose the current crop of b-list cabaret circuit comedians and fading celebs, who have infested the show like roaches over the past few years - if I wanted to see that lot, I'd be watching the One Show, sick bag in hand.
Like a lot of other BBC sourced science programs (e.g. Horizon), Sky at Night has been dumbing down for some time, and, frankly, both the programme and the licence-fee payers deserve better.
struggling to see how this is Insightful.
The people on, and involved with S@N are amateur astronomers. They may well be celebs who have faded, or comedians on the comedy circuit, but as far as S@N is concerned, they're intrigued by the stars.
As for Horizon... I like what Horizon talks about, I frequently quibble with how they present that topic, or debate. For a while, it's been too much fancy camera work, and way too much dramatic tension voiceover. One problem Horizon has, is that it's one of a few. It can't easily turn around and say "if you want hardcore, see 'Horizon (hardcore edition)'" or whatever, so it carries the mantle and has to appeal to a broad spectrum. The other problem is the fancy camera work and dramatic tension voiceover.
I think, like Quake, you can do what you will with the source (subject to license limitations), but you need to provide your own graphical, sound and model assets. Either buy the game and import the missing assets, or redo them, I guess.
perhaps Ian Hickson needs to write an SVG based AcidTest.
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