“I think that anybody who’s not using universal JavaScript is wasting a ton of time and a ton of money, and it’s just a silly thing to do.”

Eric Elliott is a JavaScript advocate, and the author of Programming JavaScript Applications. He is also an entrepreneur tackling social issues including homelessness and inequality in the tech industry.

Questions

• Why will not knowing programming be akin to illiteracy in the future?
• Does it suffice to know how code works, or is it important for people to kno how to write code?
• Why do you love JavaScript?
• What are the best practices for learning full-stack JavaScript?
• What is timeless about JavaScript?
• Why don’t we have a JavaScript OS yet?

Links

• Time Travel Debugging
• Eric’s new book
• Learn JS with Eric Elliott
• CheerioJS
• Enzyme
• Programming Literacy
• JSHomes

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