S1:E8 - Our Least Favorite Things About Our Favorite Languages

In this episode, we get into what are our pet peeves and grievances about the coding language we love the most. Guests Addy Osmani, engineering manager at Google, and Ridhwana Khan, senior engineer at DEV, both chose JavaScript, and they dig into why the language could be more opinionated, whether there should be a standardized library, and more. We also hear from our audience about what they dislike most about their beloved coding languages.

Show Notes

• DevNews (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• DataStax (sponsor)
• Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Stellar (sponsor)
• Vanilla JS
• Preact
• Ruby
• https://elm-lang.org/
• PHP
• React
• Java
• Lighthouse
• PageSpeed Insights
• JavaScript
• Spaghetti code
• Linter
• JSLint
• ESLint
• Lodash
• TC39
• Vue
• TypeScript
• Snake case
• Camel Case

Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani considers himself to be an occasional JavaScript Janitor, who cares about improving user-experiences on the web. He is also an engineering manager working on Google Chrome at Google, focused on web performance and tooling.

Ridhwana Khan

Ridhwana Khan is a senior software engineer at DEV