Douglas Crockford on JavaScript
Trying not to make this an ad-hominim attack, but Crockford has been a net negative to JS for 20 years now.<p>While people like John Resig were innovating (jquery) working with the language and around all kinds of language quirks 15 years ago, Crockford wrote his book &quot;The good parts&quot; that tried to write java in javascript. And probably did more to make people write bad JS code than anything else.<p>Then he made the mess that was YUI at yahoo with the same enterprise patterns. When that failed he went right back to these types of doomsday messages in the media every few years calling for the end of Javascript.<p>Meanwhile we have seen ES6&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;react and countless other innovation take place.<p>He might be right on some fronts, but at some point its a case of put up or shut up imo. There are far better experts to talk to about the state of JS and its future.