That's my reaction too, but it's hard to know if OP is actually overzealous or I'm just not good enough for them. This line stood out to me:
> it's important that anyone you hire has a comprehensive knowledge of apply and call
To other Javascript developers: is this really true? I do use call every now and then, but it's pretty rare. Maybe that kind of stuff is more important if you're trying to functionally isolate components with richer interfaces between them? I tend to keep a pretty polluted namespace, so maybe that's where I'm going wrong.
That said, I have a "I could learn that but I have stuff to ship" mindset about Javascript. That has its ups and downs. Maybe I should work on that a bit more.
> it's important that anyone you hire has a comprehensive knowledge of apply and call
To other Javascript developers: is this really true? I do use call every now and then, but it's pretty rare. Maybe that kind of stuff is more important if you're trying to functionally isolate components with richer interfaces between them? I tend to keep a pretty polluted namespace, so maybe that's where I'm going wrong.
That said, I have a "I could learn that but I have stuff to ship" mindset about Javascript. That has its ups and downs. Maybe I should work on that a bit more.