![]() Angular 10 was released, the JS OGs wrote a REALLY long paper on the history of JavaScript, and 10 tips for getting the beach body of your dreams. GLHF. Angular 10 is moving on from IE
Me, 12 years ago. Angular, last week They grow up so fast… Angular turned 10 (versions) old last week and decided it was time to grow up and move on from Internet Explorer 9, 10 and IE mobile. For now, they’ve just “deprecated support” (whatever that means), but they promised to fully drop support in a future release. From the docs: “Supporting outdated browsers like these increases bundle size, code complexity, and test load, and also requires time and effort that could be spent on improvements to the framework.” Some other highlights from this release:
The Bottom LineLike Ed Sheeran, Angular’s most popular days are probably behind it. The haters will say it’s because of its relative complexity, which creates a steep learning curve for developers new to the framework. Just wait until they see me pull up to the club with my brand new Angular 10 date range picker though. “JavaScript: The First 20 Years”How we got here… And by Earlier this month, the ACM journal published a 189-page paper on the history of JavaScript from 1995-2015, written by the best two people for the job: JavaScript creator Brendan Eich and Allen Wirfs-Brock (basically the Walter Isaacson of JavaScript). Ironically, this definitely took longer to write than JavaScript itself. The opening line had us hooked: “How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language.” In case you don’t make it any further than that, here’s the tl;dr for the rest of the paper:
The Bottom LineHopefully David Fincher gets the movie rights. Spot the Bug - Answer Below
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Inside our One Question InterviewWhat does the future of “No Code” look like?![]() “In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously wrote that software is eating the world. His article has proven prescient and shows no signs of slowing. Unfortunately, the power to take part in that economy was limited to the tiny percentage of people who could create software by hand with code. The No Code movement is about building bridges to creators and empowering them to create software without code. Already we see rich visual development tools for creating websites & user interfaces (full disclosure, I work on this one), connecting systems & managing data. There is going to be an explosion of specialized tools to distribute tasks that are currently confined to the work of engineers. The component mental model will be distributed across product organizations as the source of truth for Design Systems are moved from front-end developers to designers using tools like Modulz & Blocks. We’re going to see the data world shaken up with tools for data processing & AI model training. The cost of creating in-house tools is going to drop with the expanding breadth of functionality landing in cloud providers & new visual tools. It’s only a matter of time before accessible general purpose visual development unleashes the masses. Yes, Marc Andreessen was right, software is eating the world! Today more people can create software than ever and this trend will only continue as No Code is eating software.” ELI5(ish)JavaScript’s prototypeWhenever you create a function in JavaScript, that function has a
For a more detailed breakdown, visit A Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript’s Prototype. |