There Will Be JavaScript

A presentation about JavaScript I gave at Code-Hat.

Transcript

1. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT
2. I’m here to convince you to start learning JavaScript
3. @mmozuras
5. SUCKS JAVASCRIPT LET’S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY...
6. > 0.1 + 0.2
7. > 0.1 + 0.2 0.30000000000000004
8. > false == “0”
9. > false == “0” true
10. > NaN === NaN
11. > NaN === NaN false
12. > {} + []
13. > {} + [] 0
14. > var i = “1” > i++ > i
15. > var i = “1” > i++ > i 2
16. > var i = “1” > i+=1 > i
17. > var i = “1” > i+=1 > i 11
18. JavaScript: The Good Parts
19. Ok, so JavaScript is not perfect...
20. Your favorite language sucks too
21. JS is faster than other dynamic langs: Ruby, PHP, Python...
22. demo
23. It’s all about the trade-offs
24. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT ON THE SERVER
25. OMG, NODE.JS IS TOTALLY AMAZING
26. Node demo
27. ~25000 npm packages
28. Including web frameworks like Express and Tower (MVC)
29. Used in production by companies like LinkedIn and rdio
30. Meteor demo
31. Meteor, SocketStream, Derby...
32. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT IN GAMES
33. WebGL
34. voxel.js demo
37. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT IN THE DATABASE
38. MongoDB, CouchDB, Persevere...
39. MongoDB shell - all JavaScript > db.people.find({_id: 10})
40. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT ON MOBILE DEVICES
43. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT THE WAY YOU LIKE IT
44. Want Ruby & Python? Coffeescript
45. Want Clojure? Clojurescript
46. Want Java? Dart
47. Want Microsoft... static typing? Typescript
48. And there’s half a dozen of others...
49. Personally I prefer: JavaScript
50. THERE WILL BE JAVASCRIPT EVERYWHERE
51. Everything that can be written in JS, will eventually be written in JS Atwood’s Law
52. github.com/languages JavaScript 21%
53. You can use 5 languages. Or you can learn JavaScript
54. JavaScript - the only language people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. Douglas Crockford
55. IS AWESOME JAVASCRIPT
56. codingfearlessly.com twitter.com/mmozuras github.com/mmozuras thanks!