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Javascript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford · 2008

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Gergely Orosz mixed on it
Before this book I used to think that Javascript is "bad" or a "hacky" language. This book changed my perspective, understanding some tradeoffs and some remarkable strengths of this weakly typed language that is starting to take over the world. Note that this book is now dated

on blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 16 Dec 2024

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