What language is that? That does not conform to duck typing.

Could be worse. You could just have your socket disconnect because the back end process crashed.

I agree, Oracle should abandon the JavaScript trademark… and then send them a cease and desist from using the word Java when talking about their technology.

Calling the language JavaScript was a blatant case of trademark infringement, but when someone got permission from Sun/Oracle to use the JavaScript brand, they also got (implicit) permission to use the Java brand.

As much as it sucks, it was always a known issue. The JS community could have standardized on JScript, ECMAScript, or some other generic name. By continuing to use the name JavaScript, the language will always be wed to the Java trademark.

I would be curious what the daily exercises are going to be. Is it just a 24 part tutorial on the etiquette around creating and contributing to open source projects?

We have all of our build and CI in make so, theoretically, all the CI system needs to do is run a single command. Then I try to run the command on a CI server, it is missing an OS package (and their package manager version is a major version behind so I need to download a pre-built binary from the project site). Then the tests get kill for using too much memory. Then, after I reduce resource limits, the tests time out…

I am grateful that we use CircleCI as our SaaS CICD and they let me SSH on to a test container so I can see what is going on.

From a quick look at the repo, it is end-to-end testing for web applications.

Also, it seems that their big selling point is a verbose, English like syntax.

pip is a perfectly usable package manager and is included in most python distributions now. Is it perfect? No, but it is good enough for every team I have been on.

One of the (few) good things about corporate bureaucracy is that if I want to use a new dependency, I have to double check the licence and if it has any restrictions, I need to tell my PM or release engineer to create a new request with legal who will get back to us in 2-3 weeks.

I work in Java, Golang, Python, with Helm, CircleCI, bash scripts, Makefiles, Terraform, and Terragrunt for testing and deployment. There are other teams handling the C++ and SQL (plus whatever dark magic QA uses).

It looks like it targets JavaScript, the language that least needs it. What is the job security advantage of this tool over a minifier?

They forgot the Erlang approach: throw exceptions but never catch them. If you are throwing an exception either your code is wrong or your system is bad. In either case, you should crash violently and let another instance handle the retry.

I have tried GitHub project boards for hobby repos and was disappointed by how bare bones it was. For example, it did not have support for breaking a story into smaller component stories (like a Jira Epic or task with sub-tasks).