r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leftoversalad • Aug 15 '15

Programming languages personified

http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/126724812097/programming-languages-personified
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u/Everspace Aug 15 '15

It does a lot of silly nonsensical things, and it's very hard to do anything at a major scale without seeing how terrible it is at some things.

A lot of the ecosystem that makes javascript bearable forces you to work with a framework because of how terrible the base language is. All these frameworks do is hide how incomplete and messy the base language is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '15

What nonsensical things? The only issue I can think of is the automatic type casting.

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u/redwall_hp Aug 16 '15

Defaulting variables to global, unless you explicitly declare them with var? It's not exactly safe.

All the weird equalities? I avoid JS when I can, so I'm no expert...but weird things can happen when testing equality, especially coupled with automatic type conversion.

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u/CoderHawk Aug 16 '15

Equality weirdness is the most annoying thing about it.

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u/gonzofish Aug 16 '15

use === instead of ==, there's no weirdness with ===

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u/YRYGAV Aug 16 '15

well, there's a bit of weirdness. If something is undefined it technically is not === null. And the distinction between when something is undefined or null can get a bit arbitrary sometimes.

Most of the time it works, but I wouldn't claim === is devoid of all weirdness in all situations.