Recently I stumbled about this post about The complete elimination and eradication of JavaScript’s this.
To give you a TL;DR: The author states that almost no JavaScript developer understands this
, that it is a terrible concept, and introduces a library that allows developers to avoid using this
in many circumstances. So, we had a twitter discussion with pretty opposing standpoints: I think this
in JavaScript is quite simple, versatile and really useful.
But in the next days, it got me thinking …