JavaScript or ECMA Script has a community that is always finding ways to make JavaScript “suck less”. Either easier to write, deploy or test. What I have never seen is an attempt to make JavaScript more like “Java”. No language is the magical unicorn perfect for every single situation, only a novice says stupid things like that. Yes, JavaScript is messy, odd and confusing. It’s API is funky and sadly inconsistent from browser to browser. As the content we develop shifts more and more to full blown applications and not mere static content more conventions are needed to ensure that JavaScript protects itself.
I’m currently still in EST in SF at the Angular U conference. I figured I would give ES6 and Angular2 a try with the official documentation before I hear the keynotes and all.
They say you are what you eat. I think that you are whoever you seem to be plus who you really are. Others perception of you while not truly important may attribute to the scope of “who you are”.
Thinking about the desire for a password-less society. When it boils down to it there are a few major leagues of password security.
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There is an alternative to the popular Google reCaptcha (https://www.google.com/recaptcha)) that I have used 10+ years ago, called Text Captcha. (Try http://api.textcaptcha.com/cp.json for a demo) It is simple language type questions that require a very minimal effort to follow…but somehow I prefer greatly over those terrible images I can’t seem to understand.