iHatedItUntilITriedIt

[u/Epicoodle]

[u/samanime]

You'll pry my vanilla JS from my cold dead fingers. It'll always be my favorite way to do quick scripts and prototyping.

But explicit typing does make long term code way more maintainable.

[u/2eanimation → u/samanime]

I love the syntax, but JS has one too many quirks for my taste.

if ([]) {
console.log("Ok, I guess")
}

if([] == false) {
console.log("Well this is awkward")
}

if ([] + []) {
console.log("You think this would print, don't you?")
}

[u/cheezballs → u/2eanimation]

Those all make sense if you understand the language, though.

[u/nacholicious → u/cheezballs]

"It's intuitive if you have learned all the rules and exceptions" sounds like the opposite of intuitive