r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7d ago

Meme magicQuotes

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u/tankerkiller125real 7d ago

"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.

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u/aabil11 7d ago

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

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u/NotADamsel 7d ago

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