• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 days ago

        Excuse me, but it’s industry practice to always use PlusJs.

        Its just annoying that it has its own dependency on MinusJs.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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        6 days ago

        I don’t know about “fine”. It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. “There’s more than one way to do it” is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

        Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren’t quoted.

        const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

        That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It’s not. It’s { "foo": "world" }

        But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of “foo”

        You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

        There’s also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

        Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          After reading the JS Bible and listening to a lot of Kyle Simpson, I don’t find any of those unusual or unexpected, but rather neat in the context of the language. And with enough practice, even the implicit return of an arrow functions jumps out at you.

            • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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              1 day ago

              Well, I don’t think it’s a bad language necessarily. It’s a language that works, and it’s a tool that’s tried and true. Stick to the good parts and you’re good.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          2 hours ago

          JavaScript sucks but I’ll give it this one

          Arrays are complex structures with multiple values. Just because one looks like the other doesn’t make them the same object. It’s like taking two new objects form the same class, they look the same but work independently from eachother. I can add a value to one and the other would be unaffected, they’d both still be the same class

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        Oh Hells no.

        JavaScript is NOT fine, it’s … I’m really trying to think of a word that will convey the shit that it is without triggering half the people on Lemmy into an aneurysm, but I can’t find it.

        JavaScript is by far the worst. I’ve been working with JavaScript for the past 6 days and I want to hang myself, it’d be a better fate than continuing

          • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 hours ago

            PHP was shit 25 years ago (like everything else back then) and I never bothered to look at it ever again but to this day I keep shitting on it because reasons

            You

  • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    > want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

    > 6 GB MSVC installation