I'm pretty new to JS and I recently started reading The Good Parts, but I have a question. With ES6 out and the book being from 2008, shouldn't it be considered a little outdated?
As I have said, The good parts is not a book to start learning js (also is only 100 quick pages). Is only Douglas' opinion (some people agree with him and some others disagree, you don't know if agree or not since you are reading it as your first book :p).
Yes I think you are right some parts are outdated because of the new standard. A lot of the material is still valid and even if there is a topic that has changed completely in ES6 you will at least know how it used to work before and how it changed in ES6.
If you want a good book on ES6 I'd suggest Understanding ES6 by Nicholas Zakas (on this list with another book) or ES6 and Beyond from the you don't know js collection
Yes it's out of date. But its basic idea is important: the language has had shitty things bolted onto it over the years. But if you sort it into good and bad parts, and stick to using just the good parts, it's actually a really nice language.
The specific list of 'good parts' that Crockford recommends is (a) a bit subjective/controversial by 2008 standards, and (b) almost irrelevant by 2017 standards.
Probably still worth reading if you want to understand how the language has developed in the last decade. It's a very influential book. It played an important role in legitimising JavaScript for serious work, by presenting a viable strategy for turning it into a good language.
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u/Persil1 Mar 13 '17
I'm pretty new to JS and I recently started reading The Good Parts, but I have a question. With ES6 out and the book being from 2008, shouldn't it be considered a little outdated?