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owsei@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s what I hate about javascript, it doesn’t warm you about undefined behavior, it just throws.

I used to not really care about that, but after learning C and Rust, damm, I wish there where result types everywhere

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spartanatreyu@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Some small nits to fix:

C has it’s own undefined behavior.

JS has confusing behavior, not undefined behavior. Its specs are well defined and backwards compatible to a fault, making things harder to learn if you don’t learn the history of the language.

Problems with both should be avoided by learning and using standard practices. (Don’t pretend C is object oriented, always use === instead of == in js, etc…)

In complete agreement:

Result types are awesome, all future languages should be designed around them.
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- owsei@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  thank you very much.
  
  By undefined I meant the usage of undefined in the language, however you phrased it way better :)
  
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