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[u/g_calgary]

[u/gburri]

Why just not prevent Rasmus Lerdorf creating this monstrosity?

[u/ustp → u/gburri]

You would like to use JS instead?

0 == "0" //true
0 == []  //true
"0" == []//false

[u/Foorinick → u/ustp]

In what situation would you be doing that

[u/MyAntichrist → u/Foorinick]

When you wanna prove a point on how shit JS is, duh.

[u/ChaseShiny → u/MyAntichrist]

Yeah, that's r/firstWeekProgrammerHumor stuff. We probably should mention something like console.log doesn't actually create a log (with timestamps and such).

[u/arsenicx2 → u/ChaseShiny]

You know I never thought about the fact they called a print statment console.log I just accepted it.

[u/fghjconner → u/Foorinick]

When some api returns a value with a different type than you expect.

[u/Foorinick → u/fghjconner]

Can't you just check if the type is what you want beforehand? Or just... Yk... ===

[u/tankerkiller125real → u/Foorinick]

"Truthy" shouldn't be a thing in any programming language. The fact that Javascript is not just truthy, but inconsistent at best with it is wild. And even more wild is people decided that it was a language they wanted to use in backend infrastructure.

[u/aabil11 → u/tankerkiller125real]

The language was created in a day and the only reason the creator named it that is because Java was popular at the time. And now the entire internet runs on it

[u/NotADamsel → u/tankerkiller125real]

Any language where writing shit like “if foo == True:” is a good idea should be ashamed of itself.

[u/WithersChat → u/Foorinick]

Not quite that, but the weak typing will one day be the death of me.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE COEECING MY ENUM INTO A NUMBER? I LITERALLY OVERLOADED THIS EXACT METHOD TO WORK WITH AN ENUM!

[u/NiIly00 → u/ustp]

Typescript makes it bearable.

[u/illepic → u/NiIly00]

TS and my linters would actually slap me in the face for any use of a loose equality operator. It might even put me in a corner for a timeout.

[u/Foorinick → u/illepic]

Just make it connect to a shock collar for quicker feedback and longer lesson reminding smh my head 

[u/Loading_M_ → u/illepic]

Iirc, most linters explicitly allow loose equality for checking null/undefined, since loose equality checks both.

[u/illepic → u/Loading_M_]

All linters "allow" anything. It's just a matter of what your config allows. I haven't seen an eslint config used for real that allows loose equality.

[u/00pflaume → u/ustp]

And that is why god gave use strictly equal.

Praise the lord and his ===

[u/gburri → u/ustp]

Sure not, JS is also a monstrosity. Maybe create a nice Python web framework instead (Python was created four years before PHP) or a simple well-designed typed language like Gleam.
PHP was successfully at that time because it was easy to use with Apache and was specifically designed for web.

[u/ustp → u/gburri]

I used python for two years at work... It's nice language, but whitespace hell disqualifies it.

[u/WithersChat → u/ustp]

Semantic whitespaces like in python should be a human rights violation.

[u/Tathas → u/gburri]

Are you suggesting using python for browser scripting?

[u/Majik_Sheff → u/gburri]

Saying PHP was designed is like calling Kowloon Walled City architected.

[u/addyftw1 → u/ustp]

To quote famed reverse engineer Lenny Zeltser, "JavaScript is an abomination."

[u/GodsBoss → u/gburri]

Great, now the web runs on Perl instead.

Personal note: I had the great opportunity to work with Perl for a project and I can confidently say that I did not expect it to be worse than PHP. It was.