Brian Mearns
1 min readJan 15, 2020

Your title is bad and you should feel bad. Why would you tell people you don’t know that they’re bad developers for writing code you’ve never seen? A good developer knows that there are no absolutes in programming. A good developer uses the right tool for the job. A good developer doesn’t bring other people down for not knowing something, and a good developer doesn’t assume that another person is coming ignorant of a solution just because they used a different one. Articles like these don’t help people, they stunt people. Get off your high horse and recognize your dogma for what it is.

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Brian Mearns
Brian Mearns

Written by Brian Mearns

Software Engineer since 2007 ・ Parent ・ Mediocre Runner ・ Flower and Tree Enthusiast ・ Crappy Wood Worker ・ he/him or they/them

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Show me where I said that i said everyone is a bad developer, and I will take down this article right now. All I said is that prototypical delegation is much more powerful than classes and you can become a better dev by adopting this robust & advanced technology.

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Sharing is everything ❤ we all came from writing var x = 3 // number of users

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