• guy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    == is a heathen with no rightful place except equality to null. All praise ===

  • Bye@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t work with web stuff, why is js so weird? Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?

      sure, as long as it compiles to javascript

    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Most of the weirdness comes from being designed for the web, and specifically for working with forms. The value of a form field will always be a string, which is a simple and straightforward idea, but then the trouble showed up when we tried to make it more convenient to work that way.

      • cmdrkeen@programming.devOP
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        9 months ago

        Actually, most of the weirdness comes from having been originally designed in a matter of 10 days by a single engineer working to accommodate a tight release schedule.

        • Turun@feddit.de
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          9 months ago

          It’s a nice story, but it doesn’t make any sense.

          The goal of JS - just like with HTML Renderers - is to be as resilient as possible so that even a broken website will still run. You can omit the head tags, and not close your body and HTML tags - the browser will still do its best to render the website. The same goes for JavaScript. You are comparing 1234 to “1234”? I could fail with a catastrophic error and make the whole website crash - or I’ll just pretend that you meant to parse the string as a number before the comparison.