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Diskette or Floppy Disk?

So lately there are two topics I could write an article about. One is the discussion about if 3.5 inch devices to store data should be called floppies or diskettes. That discussion is coming back once in a while.

I was calling it “dyskietka”, because it’s how it’s called in polish language. And in English language I knew both names, and seen people use these names when people used floppies.

We have to remember these were the times when there was no internet. So people didn’t know that other people used other word for that. So some people called them diskettes, some floppy disks.

It’s an interesting topic because it seems like a desync, but it’s not only that. I see many people struggle with a concept of using various names for the same thing. I mean synonyms. I don’t know from where that comes from, but it’s a really interesting phenomena that some people don’t get it.

And what name did you use?

TypeScript vs JavaScript Flamewar

Second interesting topic was a row between Matt Pocock and Kyle Simpson. So, Matt Pocock published a post on LinkedIn about his free e-book about TypeScript, and Kyle noticed something odd about it. Eventually both agreed to block each other, and unfortunately it didn’t turn into a debate I expected to hear.

See, Kyle Simpson is a JavaScript expert, and Matt Pocock is a TypeScript expert. Matt wrote in his book that JavaScript wasn’t designed for big applications or something like that. Kyle felt it’s a misinformation and shared his thought under his post. There was a heated debate between fans of both of Matt and Kyle, and TypeScript and JavaScript. It was removed by Matt, so we can’t read it unfortunately.

What do you think about it? Who was right?

For me it’s a little bit funny, because TypeScript is just an extension of JavaScript, so Matt really criticized the language he was writing about, and he may be right about beginning of JavaScript. But for many, many years JavaScript was designed for advanced apps.

So I get Kyle’s point about this phrase. And tbh. I didn’t see anything in his comments that would justify deleting the discussion. But maybe Matt didn’t want to deal with all of this.

Anyways, I have a better topic than this. Well, maybe not. Maybe it’s more boring, so that’s why the introduction is so long to keep you reading :)

Improved File Filter In VSCode (Action Needed)

I’ve worked on large codebases lately and noticed it would be nice to filter out files with Regex in VSCode. It occured it could be added to VSCode, but for that to happen we have to gather 20 upvotes in limited time period!

If you want to participate in improving VSCode, go here, read about the proposal, but what’s most important log in, and click the thumb up under my first comment. That is important, under the first comment it counts as a vote:

Thank you in advance for your votes. Hopefully VSCode will become much much better in handling large codebases!

Cheers and have a nice weekend!