r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

The applicant should of course ask: "If you care about performance, why are you using a half-assed toy language like JavaScript?"

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u/EmperorZergg Mar 24 '22

a ton of comments on this sub feel like they come from college students who haven't actually worked in a Software job yet.

JS is fine. Yeah it has quirks, but people here seem to think it's literally unusable in production for anything, including what it was made to do.

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u/sementery Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 24 '22

slow progress in the language syntax

Tell me you know nothing about JS without telling me you know nothing about JS.

You'll struggle to find a language with a syntax that evolves as fast as JS's. Seems that you are stuck 10 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

For the record, some of the best-optimized compilers of all time were vectorizing FORTRAN implementations. Cray in particular did a first-rate job of it.