poink on JQuery is for Noobs

Strictly speaking, it sounds like Dojo is the one that's "for noobs". I mean, all the stuff that "happens" when you use jQuery are rookie mistakes:

  Including multiple libraries/plugins to do the same thing
  Not being ready to handle i18n/l10n
  Not having tests

Point being, if you know what you're doing, these aren't things that are going to blindside you or that you're just going to forget about.

We have apps that have well over the mentioned 5k LoC of JS that even our Ruby programmers have no problem cracking open and working on if needed.

(And for God's sake, just because they're Rails apps doesn't mean they have to depend on Prototype.)

JonnieCache 15y

>We have apps that have well over the mentioned 5k LoC of JS that even our Ruby programmers have no problem cracking open

Why the "even?" What is it about your ruby programmers which means you find it unusual that they can understand your 5k line JS app?

Not trying to be snarky or pedantic, I'm genuinely curious. I see the two languages as being relatively similar, with their common emphasis on closures and functions-as-objects. Obviously the object models are very different...

poink 15y

I work in a big shop. By and large our programmers don't venture outside their specialities (their choice). You could rephrase what I said as "even people who don't know anything about the code and have very limited experience with JS..."

I can see how what I said may have made the wrong impression. I don't think there's anything Ruby-specific that makes people good or bad at JS.

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