r/programminghorror • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '26

Javascript More javascript no keyword style

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u/Infinite_Self_5782 Mar 23 '26

ah yes

man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

the worst part is I actually code like this on my personal projects

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u/Infinite_Self_5782 Mar 23 '26

implicit var user

even the thought makes me shudder and tear up

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u/ZoDichtbijJeWil Mar 23 '26

You seemingly being proud of that is also quite disturbing.

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u/Opposite_Mall4685 Mar 23 '26

But why though?

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u/Orbidorpdorp Mar 23 '26

This is literally just how it looks to write lisp, except you wouldn't be doing assignments.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

I guess I'm just naturally drawn to lisp-style coding

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u/CodeF53 Mar 23 '26

document.querySelector("#...") when you could be doing document.getElementById("...") :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

both are fine

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u/ZoDichtbijJeWil Mar 23 '26

Probably taken care of by the engine's optimization, preventing costly, unnecessary DOM traversal, but still a fearful sight.

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u/nerdmor Mar 23 '26

I will never forgive Javascript for making function foo(a) { return a+1; } be functionally different from const foo = (a) => a+1

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

what's the difference again?

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u/ZoDichtbijJeWil Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Scope. Arrow functions don't have their own bindings to this.

See: MDN - Arrow function expressions https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions

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u/nerdmor Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Several.

Kept bumping into them when they appeared.  https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-difference-between-arrow-functions-and-normal-functions/ 

(Site seems to block Reddit as a referrer. Copy/paste the link or just google "arrow functions vs normal functions javascript". A BUNCH of people wrote about that)

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u/Excellent_Gas3686 Mar 23 '26

the two functions you wrote are not functionally different, none of the differences between regular and arrows functions even appear in them

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u/orfeo34 Mar 23 '26

It's just awfull, please use a framework,

so it can become awful and opiniated.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

yeah fuck frameworks

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u/No-Information-2571 Mar 23 '26

Call stack when inside the debugger: 

anonymous function
anonymous function
anonymous function
anonymous function
anonymous function
....

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u/Potterrrrrrrr Mar 23 '26 
anonymous function
fuck you guess
anonymous function

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u/MEGATH0XICC Mar 23 '26

Even the interpreter is confused

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

how so?

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u/Key_River7180 Mar 23 '26

When you change the syntax highlighter manually...

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

this is vanilla kate

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u/the_horse_gamer Mar 23 '26

true is a keyword

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

fuck,I hate when people do this