Alexander Nicholi
what do you know about computing?
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Been working my way through a merge request my husband filed a few days ago for our Community Software, and I've managed to write some stunningly generic code for the routing functionality used by Express. I posted it on GitHub Gist, and there are some homemade doc comments I wrote breaking it all down.
I know JavaScript is quite often underestimated, but this is arguably more straightforward than C++ when it comes to metaprogramming. It gives the JIT compiler as much room as possible to optimise, thanks to the power of function expressions and async.
I know JavaScript is quite often underestimated, but this is arguably more straightforward than C++ when it comes to metaprogramming. It gives the JIT compiler as much room as possible to optimise, thanks to the power of function expressions and async.