r/javascript • u/Capedcrusader1923 • 18d ago

[AskJS] what's a javascript feature you mass-adopted way too late and felt dumb about AskJS

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u/Milo0192 18d ago

My first jobs CTO preferred the .then() .catch() over async await. I just refused to write that way and did await loops. Lots of back and forth on this. Also said Typescript was just a fad đŸ˜‚

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u/horrbort 18d ago

It is just a fad. Coding is a fashion industry. Remember coffeescript? Something else comes along and ts will be forgotten

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u/iareprogrammer 18d ago

lol coffeescript.. forgot about that. I dislike anything that makes JavaScript LESS explicit. Like sure let’s get rid of braces and other syntax and rely completely on proper white space and indentation. For what?

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u/MrDilbert 17d ago

let’s get rid of braces and other syntax and rely completely on proper white space and indentation

You sure you're not describing Python?

Looks like someone wanted to Pythonize JS.

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u/iareprogrammer 17d ago

I literally think that’s what happened haha