• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Depending on the design of its memory, a device with a full drive will literally weigh slightly more or slightly less than one with an empty drive. Charging the battery in all cases causes it to weigh more.

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    7 hours ago

    > want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

    > 6 GB MSVC installation

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      JavaScript itself is fine. The problem is developers who import a library to add two numbers.

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        I don’t know about “fine”. It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. “There’s more than one way to do it” is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

        Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren’t quoted.

        const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

        That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It’s not. It’s { "foo": "world" }

        But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of “foo”

        You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

        There’s also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

        Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

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          After reading the JS Bible and listening to a lot of Kyle Simpson, I don’t find any of those unusual or unexpected, but rather neat in the context of the language. And with enough practice, even the implicit return of an arrow functions jumps out at you.

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        Oh Hells no.

        JavaScript is NOT fine, it’s … I’m really trying to think of a word that will convey the shit that it is without triggering half the people on Lemmy into an aneurysm, but I can’t find it.

        JavaScript is by far the worst. I’ve been working with JavaScript for the past 6 days and I want to hang myself, it’d be a better fate than continuing

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        10 hours ago

        Excuse me, but it’s industry practice to always use PlusJs.

        Its just annoying that it has its own dependency on MinusJs.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Use the modulo operator? Nah. Need to import the isEven library and a ton of other unnecessary sub-50 LOC libraries “maintained” by a single dev to make their CV look more impressive. /s

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    lol at 3/4 of a megabyte of Vue components being ok and thinking node_modules is the issue at hand.