{"id":188,"date":"2020-01-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/douglas-crockford-the-good-part-of-javascript\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:29:59","slug":"douglas-crockford-the-good-part-of-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/javascript\/douglas-crockford-the-good-part-of-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Crockford: the good part of JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>f you are the man who discovered the JSON<\/span> data interchange format, the world’s most loved data format, and discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript<\/span>, then people can be assured that your thoughts about what will be the big next programming paradigm can be an amazing discovery.<\/p>\n

Douglas Crockford<\/a> held Codemotion Rome 2018 opening keynote, speaking about programming and paradigms, and about human nature<\/span> of scientist and programmers<\/span> and how this nature can slow down adoptions of brand new and useful ideas.<\/p>\n

A paradigm can be described as set of patterns and methods that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community<\/span>. Progress in programming happens shifting from one parading to another one. Any new paradigm implies improvement, so why people oppose to the adoption of a new paradigm?<\/p>\n

Douglas answers is this is bond to the nature itself of paradigm: paradigm is a significant change in the way we think and for most people it is difficult to switch out from a paradigm once they’ve become competent.<\/p>\n

In science if we encounter fact which contradicts our current understand of science, we should abandon our old beliefs. But change is painful.<\/q><\/p>\n