Brendan Eich wrote: > Ease of teaching != successfully imparted knowledge at scale. Sorry, but > it's true. People don't use "use strict"; at top level enough, and > teaching them all will take time. Even then, because of the Law of Least > Effort, it'll be left out. > > This is the major objection some of us keep raising, and you don't > engage with it. Please do!
This got me thinking (and I wonder if anyone has some data/experiences/guesses about this): How many people put <!doctype html> at the top of their HTML files in order to opt-in to standards mode. I sure do! Every time I write an HTML file it's the first thing I write. I wonder if that experience is the more common one? I admit to not writing "use strict"; in most of my JS files due to laziness (I prefer to use strict when I'm taking my time). I guess the carrot isn't as big in ES5 as it is in HTML/DOM, at least in my eyes. It seems like a pretty parallel situation to me. But with a bigger carrot, I sure wouldn't be too lazy! And my assumption is others would gain the energy as well (unless there are still a bunch of devs out there not putting a doctype in their HTML, in which case the fear of Law of Least Effort is quite valid). Does anyone have some data to quench my curiosity? Nathan _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
