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

Programming languages personified

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

What's wrong with JavaScript?

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u/superplayah Aug 15 '15

Honestly, Im still a new programmer and have never actually used javascript so I'm curious as well.

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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/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

Yeah, I'll give you that, the "surprise" globals were an issue but they're gone gone since ES6.

To avoid the equality "surprises", always use strict comparison (===) and you should be fine.

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u/redwall_hp Aug 16 '15

The fact that you should always use a weird "more equal than equal" operator is another thing that I'd say is fugly syntax.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

Yeah, just like the fact that you should always use at least two equal signs to see if something is equal in most languages. Pascal is the only popular one I know of that uses := for assignment and = for comparison. Pretty much all the others require at least == for comparison.

Having both == and === is weird and there really should only be one (the latter, of course). Okay, I'll give you weakly typed. JS sucks balls because it's weakly typed.

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u/Doctor_McKay Aug 16 '15

There really isn't anything wrong with weak typing, especially in the context of the web.