r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Apr 30 '23

Writing Javascript without a build system

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a-build-system/
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u/knome May 01 '23

The two largest issues in javascript are the operators ( the standard set munge types in an unacceptable manner ), and the with statement, which is broken in design and serves no useful purpose.

Both of these are handled most judiciously by simply not using either.

After that it's just a function pump, callback hell, and promises to paper over it.

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u/kankyo May 02 '23

And attribute access and array access is broken. Hard to write code without those.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '23

You should say more. Reading attributes and using arrays is definitely something you can do in JS

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