The birth of JS

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• AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just a reminder that JavaScript was developed in 10 days, the same amount of time i spend fixing bugs when i miss a “,”

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  • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The world was made in 7 days, so it should have been 3 days left up develop js

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    • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This sounds more credible than the big bang theory. I no longer believe in science

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• devious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is one of the most educational and entertaining reads on the internet, if you are into that kind of thing:

  github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Has anyone actually read through that? Reading the first few examples and it’s just not understanding how languages work half of the time:

    !!"false" == !!"true"; // -> true
    !!"false" === !!"true"; // -> true
    

    Wow, no shit, non-empty string coerces to true, who would’ve guessed! Did you know that !!“bullshit” === !!“true” as well? Mind=blown.

    NaN === NaN; // -> false
    

    Again, no shit, that’s in the NaN specification and the page even mentions it, so why even include it?

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    • noli@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is why I’m of the opinion that dynamically typed languages are evil. !!“false” should either be caught at compile time or raise an exception.

      I’m thoroughly convinced that the only use of dynamically typed languages is to introduce bugs

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    • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NaN===NaN is the fault of the floating point standard tho i believe.

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    • icesentry@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, a huge proportion of the list is just not understanding IEEE floats behaviour and blaming the language for it. Exactly like this post is doing. All those weird number things js does is because it only uses floats for everything and every language that uses floats will behave the exact same way.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, uh, first example, the developer decided instead of comparing based on type, he rather converts the values? Why?!

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• nxfsi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The tech equivalent of inventing leaded gasoline.

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah. The shork did the math. This explains a lot.

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• DanielCF@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You just have to look at the problem from a different angle.

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• Cocoa6790@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not enough alcohol involved.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is this image from?

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  • FehrIsFair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This image is fan art of Gawr Gura from Hololive EN’s 1st Gen VTuber group HoloMyth.

    She is their most subscribed talent and is known for being computationally challenged.

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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• tun@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Approach the problem from different angle!

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