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dotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJS

dotconferences · 209.4K views · 2013-01-19 · 18:27

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Overview

Brian Leroux's dotJS 2012 talk WTFJS is a quick, humorous tour of JavaScript's odd behaviors and quirks.

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Linked as a funny tour of JavaScript gotchas, usually to show the language has oddities of its own.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2024

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aroman · 2013-04 · Recommendation

I'm glad that someone posted this :) See also a longer spin of of this talk at the more decent dotJS conference: [VIDEO]

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TacticalCoder · 2024-05 · Reference

That's JavaScript for you. Here's a talk about the (in)sanity of JS: [VIDEO] The same under Clojure (on top of the JVM) shall throw a class cast exception.

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mrtksn · 2021-06 · Joke / meme

I don’t see why you are offended. I love JS but here it is 20min of programming jokes in the expense of JS: [VIDEO] As it comes to PHP, I don’t say that you can do everything by a single PHP file in a web server folder(actually, you can but not comfortably). I’m trying to illustrate it’s low-code nature. There are no other languages that are that easy to start solving your problem with. Okay, maybe Python. The newer no-code or low-code tools have the same spirit. They are abstraction layers targeting a domain. These days there’s plenty you can do by programming visually without any knowledge of programming languages. Not everything needs to scale for throughput.

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