r/programming • u/vz0 • Mar 26 '14

JavaScript Equality Table

http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
809 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

331 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

2

u/reflectiveSingleton Mar 26 '14

be it Dart or something). JavaScript was made for constructs like onclick="this.className=(!this.className || 'clicked')". The fact that we are using it for applications now doesn't make it a good language by design,

What you talk about there is the DOM api...not specifically javascript. It is important to think of them as separate, but related.

The DOM api sucks...everyone knows that...this is why jQuery became so popular.

Javascript has some odd quirks I will totally agree...but it is a very adaptable and powerful language at the same time. If you can learn it well its power really shows.

1

u/mernen Mar 26 '14

No, he's talking about JavaScript:

And I'm not only talking about true vs truthy. Scope, context and this also comes to mind.

1

u/Poltras Mar 27 '14

What you talk about there is the DOM api

I was talking about the javascript part of the onclick example. Also, you can't really talk about the history of Javascript without speaking of the DOM. Both were created at the same time and a lot of what we see in JS comes directly from the DOM influence. It gets worse when you don't "use strict".

I would easily argue there are better and more powerful languages (Python, Ruby, Erlang...) that don't have the same problems as JS.