I should probably learn #Javascript at some point, but I've tried it a bunch of times in the past and always got annoyed and quit.
And I normally wouldn't bother (Very not into WebDev, etc.), but there's so much cool stuff USING JS, especially in interactive fiction and related areas! 😭
Is there, like, a self-help book for this?
"JS for people who hate JS"?
"How I learned to stop worrying and love Javascript"?
@keponk Well, the thing that prompted my grumbling was reading about "Fractive", a tool for writing IF in Markdown and JS. (Which is itself implemented in Node.js.)
But other IF tools like Twine ( http://twinery.org ) also (can) use JS for some advanced funtionality.
@minx I hated JS before too but then I was kind of forced to start. I started with AngularJS which is not so much JS but it’s really fun because everything goes quick once you got the hello world startet. And after a while you might need to implement real JS. That’s how I got into that topic a few years ago. Never learned to love the language though but built industry scale apps with it.
@minx there are languages that are different but compile to #JavaScript. I personally like #PureScript (http://www.purescript.org/), not sure how well that suites your purpose though.
@tauli Thats... not really what I'm looking for.
I mean, there are Python to JS transpilers out there, so I could, in theory, write my stuff in my prefered language, but that doesn't actually help me learn Javascript.
@minx maybe JavaScript: The Good Parts by Crockford? Also apparently there’s a little update since it was written a while back: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/good-parts-javascript-web/new-good-parts-in-es6/
@b Thanks, I'll give it a read.
@minx honest curiosity, can you share some links about this "interactive fiction" ?