JavaScript, and lessons learned

For various reasons, I found myself doing a bunch of JavaScript stuff this weekend.  The project was to get a decent WYSIWYG editor into Redmine.  Because I don't feel like writing an essay tonight, here's the short version of what I learned:

• Redmine is actually pretty easy to write plugins for; the development model is not bad at all
• JavaScript sucks balls.  It is a truly hideous language.
• The jQuery and Aloha devs are programming gods.  What they've produced is incredible, considering the fetid, rancid cesspool that is JavaScript.
• jQuery is a nice toolkit
• Aloha is slick
• Aloha and Redmine documentation isn't very good.  jQuery is not bad
• "Dependency hell" takes on a whole new meaning in JavaScript.

My biggest take-away from this was that Golang is a much better place for me; it's a lot less work to write good code in Go than in JavaScript; there's a lot less ambiguity.  I'm not sure if I could survive in the JavaScript world.  It's simply too chaotic for me. hat Golang is a much better place for me; it's a lot less work to write good code in Go than in JavaScript; there's a lot less ambiguity.  I'm not sure if I could survive in the JavaScript world.  It's simply too chaotic for me.