"For me JavaScript is a lost cause" -Douglas Crockford
plus.google.comI'd rather not listen to the 50-minute audio recording behind the link; what's the context?
I expect that context is going to be key to this quote, and this page doesn't provide any.
Context is the binary implementation of the Number type. Crockford believes it should be more akin to a fast decimal implementation.
Is the remark which currently comprises the title of this post purely about bignum support? If so, this is the most egregiously linkbaity titling i have ever seen on HN.
And yes, i know, that's the quote that John Cook leads with in his G+ post. That it's a technically correct titling of an indirection to the real content compounds the sin, in my book.
mentioned at 47:40