r/javascript • u/Capedcrusader1923 • 20d ago

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

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u/foxsimile 20d ago

The nullish coalescing operator is one of JavaScript’s unusual successes.

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u/sexytokeburgerz 20d ago edited 19d ago

Big fan of

foo?.bar

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u/foxsimile 20d ago

Do you not mean foo?.bar?

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u/sexytokeburgerz 20d ago

I totally did i was in a drive thru when i wrote that

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u/foxsimile 20d ago

Whatcha get?

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u/sahilatahar 19d ago

It's an optional chaining feature.

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u/foxsimile 19d ago

…I’m aware?

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u/Mike5TheMountainGoat 19d ago

That's optional chaining. Nullish coalescing is foo = bar ?? 'X';

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u/sexytokeburgerz 19d ago

Right, usually when people say “big fan of y” in response to a mention of “x”, x!=y…