30 Years Of JavaScript

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	30 Years Of JavaScript
Date	2025-04-24 01:52 +0000
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OK, so the actual anniversary was back in March. But I just
(re)discovered the InfoWorld site, and was surprised to discover it
has become such a software-development-focused place (was it before?).

This article
<https://www.infoworld.com/article/3836901/10-things-developers-love-about-javascript-and-10-things-they-dont.html>
goes over some of the things the author(s) love about JavaScript, and
some things they don’t.

In terms of punctuation, didn’t they know semicolons (at least as
statement terminators) are optional in JavaScript? Yes, the rule is a
bit more subtle than in Python, but even I, a Python programmer, was
able to figure it out.

Type conversion: this I do not love. Being able to compare integers
and reals is natural and reasonably safe, bringing strings into the
mix is not. There’s a reason why Python is able to get away with not
needing a “===” operator, while JavaScript and PHP are not.

Truthiness: yes, this is a pitfall, too. Languages should just take
the Pascal route and insist that conditions be of Boolean type.

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