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0 pointsvhakulinen6y ago0 comments

> I think the introduction of emoji reactions was a bad idea, it gamifies the issues system.

It depends on the community. I've seen many where the reactions are genuine and actually serves a purpose. From what I've seen, its almost always a popular js/node project that attracts this kind if behaviour like seen in this thread (based on my own observations).

Last example is vscode's santa hat[1]. It seems that that thread is mostly empty now but I remember there was huge meme thread going on in that issue or in reddit/hn when that thing was happening.

1: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268

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Sharlin6y ago

JS/Node is the entry-level programming environment of the current era, like PHP used to be, and the community norms (or lack thereof) reflect that.

vhakulinenOP6y ago

Your comparison of today's js/node to PHP from 20 years ago is interesting.

I wonder if javascript will be in similar place in 10-20 years that PHP is today (e.g. "its not like it used to be and things a actually quite good now")? The language it self (javascript) might be there already, but is the community anywhere close yet? SQL injections used to be the thing PHP was known for in the past but not so much these days (the community is more experienced?). Meanwhile, problems with NPM and the whole packaging situation is what javascript is known for these days, but will the be so on 20 years?

wbl6y ago

Javascript is a far better designed language than PHP. The identifiers don't have lengths picked because the maintainer used length as a hash function to name one notorious feature.

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