Oops, I think I partially misread your email: You were talking about upcoming changes and new patterns enabled by ES.next. But some of my observations should still hold: You probably need a single person to write such material (or at least to curate it).
Begin forwarded message: > From: Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: supporting ES upgrading with a programming pattern repo? > Date: November 10, 2011 1:34:36 GMT+01:00 > To: Claus Reinke <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:55 , Claus Reinke wrote: > >> Both the committee and JS coders could profit from examples. > > > Amen to that. JavaScript seems worse than any other language when it comes to > finding correct information on the web. For example, I trust StackOverflow > for many topics, but for JavaScript, it’s often shockingly wrong. Half-truths > are even worse than information that is completely wrong. > > However, there are so many styles in JavaScript that I don’t think there is a > way of creating a corpus that everyone agrees on. The best you can do as a > newbie is hitch your wagon to someone that you trust and follow his/her > style. There are a few books that allow you to do that (JavaScript the good > parts, Eloquent JS, etc.). I really liked “Effective Java”, a similar book > would make sense for JavaScript (in many ways “the good parts” already is). > Some of Brendan’s tweets, some of Allen’s or David’s posts, and Mark’s recent > puzzle would all qualify as material for such a book. > > Apart from that, I thought that it might make sense to found some kind of > “network of trust” of people who write introductory articles. It would be a > brand that tells people that the information they see is correct. For > example, when I see something by, say, Addy Osmany, Angus Croll, or Nicholas > Zakas I know that there usually won’t be any errors. It might make sense for > someone to curate the considerable introductory material that is out there. > That could be complemented by a peer review process. > > -- > Dr. Axel Rauschmayer > [email protected] > > home: rauschma.de > twitter: twitter.com/rauschma > blog: 2ality.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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