The advantage of using pure functional language for frontend than JS hack

Øredev 2017 - Sean Grove - Finding joy in programming

Sean Grove argues that JavaScript’s relatively short “time-to-initial-success” creates a false sense of productivity. Constraints like static typing can help detect some failures much earlier, offsetting the potential increase to the time-to-initial-success that may be imposed by the constraints.


"Universal Reason" by Jacob Bass (Strange Loop; Sept. 28-30, 2017)

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