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Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1

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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 11:56:48 AM UTC-6, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Stefan Ram:
>> >   Today, I read the first chapter "Types".
>> > 
>> >   This chapter is disappointing, though.
>> 
>> The whole business model of Airbnb is evil:

1. Fallacy: Poisoning the well.  Airbnb’s other business is irrelevant to
   their style guide.

2. Bullshit.  I have been Airbnb-ing from Lombardia (Italy) to Scotland (UK)   
   in recent years and have not heard a single complaint from my hosts about
   the business model (most of them are friends now).
 
> They have their own style-guide; good for them and irrelevant to anyone
> else unless they plan on interop with external developers.

It is used by more than one company, including one (or two?) for which I 
have worked recently.
 
> Most of it looks to be obvious, but many seem to be redundant if they used
> modern JavaScript with Babel or the like and an autofixing linter.

It turns out that autofixing code is a Really Bad Idea[tm], and Babel is 
irrelevant in that regard.  In fact, there are incompatibilities that Babel 
cannot (could not/is not going to) fix, e. g. for-of loops (some of us still 
had/have to consider IE).

> Most of the rest seem to be idiosyncrasies.

I found it necessary to change some of their ESLint rules in my ESLint 
configuration, but on the whole their Style Guide made a lot of sense
(in particular as I was working with people who were not that into code 
consistency as I am).  Some rules are also only recommendations or do not 
advocate strictly for one style.

> This is just dumb:
> 
> "Do not use JavaScript getters/setters as they cause unexpected side
> effects..."

IBTD.

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Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-01-11 18:56 +0100
  Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-01-11 11:43 -0800
    Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-01-11 23:11 -0800
    Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-01-13 21:03 +0100
      Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-01-13 21:42 +0100
      Re: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guidelines, chapter 1 "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-01-13 12:49 -0800

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