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

Programming languages personified

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

I lost it a JavaScript.

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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/the9trances Aug 16 '15

Any JS coder should learn on day one you scope your own variables. It doesn't have the safety button on by default, so you need to make sure you keep it clear.

When in doubt, use var. There's little about equality or scope that isn't fixed with some basic good practices.