I hate JavaScript

[Sander Rossel]

I once spend 15 minutes trying to write a simple Hello World in JavaScript. I had pretty much the same problem. Boy, do you feel stupid when you have years of experience and fail at Hello World :laugh: Luckily I now know the problem is JavaScript, not me :D I find JavaScript doable nowadays, but only when I don't have to deal with other people's code.

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Regards, Sander

[kalberts]

That is curable ... Geek and Poke[^]

[Dar Brett 0]

If you think that's bad - you should try missing a semicolon after a class definition in C++

[lindennerd1992]

goddam right! :thumbsup:

[sir_download_alot]

Yeah, Cobol was easier!

[Richard Deeming]

That's fine if you control the environment. If you're writing a website, it's going to be 10+ years before you can safely use those features without a "transpiler" to convert them back to ES5. And even then, you'll still have users on IE6 complaining that your site is broken. :rolleyes:

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[ClockMeister]

Nope. Takes a little getting used to when you usually code in C# or something but it's just another language you can do some interesting things with.

[xtofl]

Really? No syntax hilighting? `function` is blue and `funtion` is grey. Or you're using the wrong editor. Otherwise, prepend this to all your javascript:

var funtion = function(){ throw new Error("you typed _funtion_ instead of _function_"); };
var x = funtion() {};

[loctrice]

[joke] pro tip: don't program in notepad [/joke] Just use vscode[^]

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[Aless Alessio]

That's the thing! If you look at this link ECMAScript 6 compatibility table[^] you ll see that almost every browser is now ECMA6 compatible. The only and only exception is IE. So, let's move those old IE aficionados to Edge then

[Herbie Mountjoy]

There was a time when I frequently used Javascipt to knock of quick and dirty batches. Then along came powershell and I was reformed. Hallelujah!

We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.

[Kirk 10389821]

Edge has 2 use cases: 1) Downloading Chrome 2) Amazement that they made it so much faster while making it feel like it's just broke!

[Leng Vang]

My first encountered with duct-typing, I though was bad idea. Now switching back to code in C#, I actually miss the duct-type and the ability of adding property on the go as in JavaScript. No you are not the only weirdo.

[Charles Programmer]

Love your byline. :-D

[User 11524118]

My wife had a missing period that cost me 22 years. :laugh:

[jlongo]

Yes