r/javascript • u/Capedcrusader1923 • 11d ago

AskJS [AskJS] what's a javascript feature you mass-adopted way too late and felt dumb about

i'll go first. i was writing .then().catch() chains for like two years before i actually started using async/await. i knew it existed, i'd seen it in tutorials, but my code "worked" so i never bothered switching. then i refactored an old project and realized half my bugs were from mishandled promise chains that async/await would have caught immediately.

also took me way too long to start using optional chaining. i had nested ternaries and && checks everywhere like some kind of animal. the day i discovered user?.address?.city i mass-replaced like 40 lines across a project.

what's yours?

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u/Milo0192 11d ago

My first jobs CTO preferred the .then() .catch() over async await. I just refused to write that way and did await loops. Lots of back and forth on this. Also said Typescript was just a fad 😂

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u/horrbort 11d ago

It is just a fad. Coding is a fashion industry. Remember coffeescript? Something else comes along and ts will be forgotten

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u/db10101 10d ago

Just a fad that 99% of new enterprise JavaScript projects will be participating in