I had worked with JavaScript for a while back in the late 1990's. It was a very messy language and a pain to deal with. Accessing HTML elements seemed to be hit or miss at times and it was easy to crash a browser. I got back into JavaScript 2 1/2 years ago with Node.js 8 doing Alexa Skill development. I was very pleased to see how the language has matured and tools like ESLint and VS Code made code development and checking a breeze. Having spent years working with C#, I see plenty of parallels between the two languages. In fact, the recent addition of Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing bring two very useful C# features to JavaScript. Lately I have moved into TypeScript as I find that to be even more C# like and having the strong typing is a real plus
I had worked with JavaScript for a while back in the late 1990's. It was a very messy language and a pain to deal with. Accessing HTML elements seemed to be hit or miss at times and it was easy to crash a browser. I got back into JavaScript 2 1/2 years ago with Node.js 8 doing Alexa Skill development. I was very pleased to see how the language has matured and tools like ESLint and VS Code made code development and checking a breeze. Having spent years working with C#, I see plenty of parallels between the two languages. In fact, the recent addition of Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing bring two very useful C# features to JavaScript. Lately I have moved into TypeScript as I find that to be even more C# like and having the strong typing is a real plus
It was great knowing about your experience working with this language in its recent times. Thank you so much!