Re: Do not use var / what about import [Confusion by John Harris]

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From	Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject	Re: Do not use var / what about import [Confusion by John Harris]
Date	Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:03:03 +0100
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I guess John Harris mind will soon explode.
There is more isomorphism on the horizon:

pg-mem is an experimental in-memory
emulation of a postgres database. It
works both in Node or in the browser.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-mem

Poor John Harris, give this man some valium
and an ice pack so that he can cool down.

Mild Shock schrieb:
> Attention to John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk>
> In case you are about to go on a fishing spree
> for F.U.D. like here:
> 
> Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_Uncertainty_and_Doubt
> 
> Be warned, your findings might mostlikely come out
> as lame accusations. Judging from your JavaScript
> tutorials your are stuck somewhere in the yesterdays
> yesterday of JavaScript, you write:
> 
>  > First, inside a function definition
>  > var v;
>  > makes v a local variable.
>  > [...]
>  > However, in 2015 two other kinds of variable
>  > were introduced that do have block scope. They
>  > are declared using the keywords const and
>  > let instead of var.
> https://www.jghnorth.org.uk/notes/JSfeats.html
> 
> Why not just admit that var is practically deprecated,
> and make a fresher of your nonsene tutorials, remove it?
> It's probably only still there for backward compatibility.
> 
> 4 Reasons Why ‘var’ is Considered Obsolete in Modern JavaScript
> https://plainenglish.io/blog/4-reasons-why-var-is-considered-obsolete-in-modern-javascript 
> 
> 
> Also I doubt you can run Dogelog Player for JavaScript
> with your mindset, it requires ES6 modules.
> 
>

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