Accompanying files to my talk about flaws and shortcommings of JavaScript as a language and as a community.
01 - Shows how bad, immaturiture and needless JavaScript meta/reflection capabilities are.
It also shows original takes on defining getter which is not sufficient due to other properties of the language but way simpler. To me, it also shows why macros should among top priorities in language developement.
02 - Stupid example of Sweeet.js macro. Originaly, I wanted to find a simple yet practical example from Clojure and compare it with Sweet.js.
I actually think Sweet.js is nice, but the problem here is that even though JavaScript is used to solve wide range of problems, the community doesn't see that original syntax is very limiting in many cases.
03 - Comparison of ES6 generators with actor model from IO language. Honestly, it is not very comparable because using actors lead to different design than use of coroutines.
One thing here is the syntax around generators which to me is
understable but still very unfortunate. Yield being a keyword and
that asterisc in generator definition are the worst I think.
Koa is a new take on the job commonly done by Connect and Express.js. The example code in IO is nearly pseudo-code.
04 - Asynchronicity has many faces even when you have only one thread.