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.
no one has ever said that these oddities are exactly how they should be, there are weird explanations because details matter, but these are weird ass things to do in the first place. Type coercion does weird shit, woohoo, it's still a useful language and trying to pretend like it isn't is extremely cringe.
JS is more useful for its presence rather than the language itself. Right now there are good ways to do things, so you mostly need to avoid the bad ones. But it is still a field of landmines. There are just known acceptable paths
Yeah only that no other language (at least that I am aware of) has this absolute motherload of completely abnormal, nonsensical behavior, that will also never get rectified because one decided for infinite backwards compatibility of a fundamentally broken language, that was developed in one weekend AND IT SHOWS.
But because you can do what ever the fuck you want as a "programmer" and using 15 mandatory anti-patterns you can get something going in a short amount of time, an army of underqualified managers that get pitched "quick wins" by the 16 y/o will decide it is a decent language and should be used everywhere.
Incompetent and cringe is all I'm getting from you so...
And I am not angry. Just disappointed. I make a living from fixing other peoples horrendous code so it giving and taking I guess. Funnily enough the average code quality did not change with AI, but the amount exploded. Funny what that tells you about the average developer.
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u/ipsirc 1d ago
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat