polotek

Today I had a brief debate on twitter about AMD vs CommonJS, https://twitter.com/TechWraith/status/441387541778808832. It's a debate worth having for sure. But I had to bail out of this one. The thing that annoyed me is that the first argument that people bring up to disquality AMD is "the syntax is too complex". I disagree with this. There are lots of reasons to prefer CommonJS over AMD, but the module authoring syntax is not a very good one. There was also a related statement that AMD authoring introduces more "cognitive overhead". This is absolutely true. But I don't consider this to be synonymous with "complexity" by any means.

So I thought I'd explore some comparable examples. Here's a simple one that was offered up by someone else in the thread. This was on twitter so I can forgive erring on the side of brevity.

AMD

define('myThing', ['some', 'deps'], function (some, deps) {
  //my code
  
 return myThing;

reklis

diff --git a/Core/SVGParser.m b/Core/SVGParser.m
index a2a3106..7726901 100644
--- a/Core/SVGParser.m
+++ b/Core/SVGParser.m
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #import "SVGPolylineElement.h"
 #import "SVGRectElement.h"
 #import "SVGTitleElement.h"
+#import "SVGTextElement.h"
 

techwraith

var Renderer = function () {
  var self = this
    , requestAnimationFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame ||
                              window.mozRequestAnimationFrame ||
                              window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
                              window.msRequestAnimationFrame
  
  this.queue = {}
  
  requestAnimationFrame(function () {

trevorbernard

import org.zeromq.ZContext;
import org.zeromq.ZMQ;
import org.zeromq.ZMQ.Socket;

import zmq.io.mechanism.curve.Curve;

public class Security {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Curve curve = new Curve();
    String[] serverKeys = curve.keypairZ85();

ejdyksen

patch-edid.rb

A script to fix EDID problems on external monitors in macOS.

Instructions

1. Connect only the problem display.

2. Create this directory structure (if it doesn't already exist):