Jeremy Ashkenas hates cross-browser consistency

https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/commit/4e4bc194c0a0e06aa8f7633695ad10030d871a2b

by stealsomesteel • 14 years ago

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bengillies• 14 years ago

If what you want is cross browser consistency of sparse arrays (that is, if you _really_ want to use them), then you should probably use ES5-shim or something instead.

Jeremy Ashkenas can support or not support whichever parts of built-in array behaviour he wants, given that:

a) It's his library b) It doesn't try and copy the standard ES5 API anyway

mr_eel• 14 years ago

Underscore is not a kitchen-sink library. In order to keep it a terse library, Jeremy will need to constantly decide what goes in and what does not. I don't always agree with his choices, but I'm glad he's willing to be aggressive about what he believes is good. That's what makes for good libraries.

Also, I must say this is a poor choice of title for a HN post. It's emotive, a generalisation and doesn't actually reflect the actual content of the link.

You obviously disagree with Jeremy. Fine. But posts like this are weak.

Jeremy Ashkenas hates cross-browser consistency

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