Thanks for that; I'll check it out. I was not talking about using a browser to run anything at all; strictly command-line utilities. (Update: I read much of the first few pages of that triple-script tutorial, and I definitely like the stated goals. Added to reading list!)
Deno has a way to package up the necessary JS runtime and make a self-contained executable. I'm sure it's bloated as hell, but again I don't want to require a browser.
Do you have any examples of said "bad practices" and non-standard dialects? I'm building a server with Deno right now to provide a REST-style API for a mobile app (nothing fancier than CRUD and some push notifications). The contenders for me were PHP 8 and Deno. Since I wanted to learn JavaScript anyway, I went with Deno. So far I've had a decent experience.
> Do you have any examples of said "bad practices" and non-standard dialects?
There's an inexhaustible list. But here are some:
- `require`, `module.exports`, and `.mjs`
- `Buffer`
- Abusing arrow functions and generally going out of one's way to reimplement `this`, poorly
- Closures everywhere (and near zero regard for runtime consequences, i.e. perf incl. memory usage, or legibility of code)
- Abusing `===` (i.e. using it everywhere and yelling at you if you don't—even going so far as to write codestyle bots and other tooling that forces you to change occurrences of `==` to `===` e.g. to get the build to succeed); lines where `===` is used instead of `==` should ideally make up something like less than one half of 1% of your code (generous), if it ever occurs at all
- A whole slew of "My First Experience with Polymorphism and Types™" antipatterns that are unwisely encouraged like `function foo(x) { if (typeof(x) == "string") /* ... */ }` and naive use (i.e. misuse) of `instanceof`, plus a bunch of packages like is-uint8array and/or basically the entirety of the (non-standard) utils.types namespace
Thanks for the reply. Several of these I haven't encountered yet, but I wholeheartedly agree that the uselessness of "==" and insistence on "===" is some amateur-hour junk.
Let's see, what else... yes, I don't see the point of arrow functions. And the reliance on RTTI is just straight-up bad programming in any language.
So what would you choose to write a server in? I'm writing a fairly straightforward server to present a REST-stye API and access a database for a mobile app. I'm doing all this alone, so presumably I'm going to have to rely on at least a few frameworks for "routing" and serialization because I don't think I have time to roll my own.
Deno has a way to package up the necessary JS runtime and make a self-contained executable. I'm sure it's bloated as hell, but again I don't want to require a browser.
Do you have any examples of said "bad practices" and non-standard dialects? I'm building a server with Deno right now to provide a REST-style API for a mobile app (nothing fancier than CRUD and some push notifications). The contenders for me were PHP 8 and Deno. Since I wanted to learn JavaScript anyway, I went with Deno. So far I've had a decent experience.