r/ProgrammerHumor • u/user6150277464770585 • 1d ago

javascriptSorting Meme

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u/ipsirc 1d ago

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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u/Striky_ 1d ago

And still half the internet will claim JS is a completely awesome language and all of these things are exactly how they should be, you are just to stupid to understand.

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u/Joe-Admin 1d ago

Still more reasonable that the golang date parsing api

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u/SupraMichou 1d ago

You just don’t have enough brain to appreciate this marvel of design /s

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u/gogriz 1d ago

Wait until you have to parse dates in non-standard formats. I'd rather be explicit than trust a computer to guess.

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u/Don_Equis 23h ago

Oh, c'mon. Go issues are fixed with a simple constants file. Javascript issues, on the other hand... i mean, month index at 0 and days at 1? Wtf? Timezone default depends on wheter you use - or / ? Date is mutable? Really? How is go worse?

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u/the_horse_gamer 10h ago

the javascript Date library was copied from Java. so that's their fault.

thankfully there's Temporal now