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It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's... (reddthat.com)
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Squidward Tentacles meme format. Top panel shows Squidward looking happy while setting up a beach chair, with the text 'WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT I USE AND APPRECIATE'. Bottom panel shows Squidward looking sad and disappointed, folding up the chair and going back inside a building, with the text 'WRITTEN IN JS'.
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of those videos where they do things like {} + [], but why would anyone care what JS does in that case? Unless you’re a shit-ass programmer, you’re never going to be running code like that.

By this same logic, memory safety issues in C/C++ aren't a problem either, right? Just don't corrupt memory or dereference null pointers. Only "a shit-ass programmer" would write code that does something like that.

Real code has complexity. Variables are written to and read from all sorts of places and if you have to audit several functions deep to make sure that every variable won't be set to some special value like that, then that's a liability of the language that you will always have to work around carefully.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    No.

    By that same logic, memory safety issues in C/C++ don’t make them bad programming languages.

    If you’re worried about it, like you’re accepting input from the user, sanitize it.

    if (typeof userProvidedData !== "string") {
  throw new Error("Only works on strings.");
}

    Better yet, put that in a function called assertString.

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