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> but in practice it was doomed to fail from the moment a single bracket off made entire sites to stop working. Maybe the solution was to not publish sites tha

> but in practice it was doomed to fail from the moment a single bracket off made entire sites to stop working. Maybe the solution was to not publish sites that are a bracket off. I think half the problems with JavaScript are because of its weak typing. 1 + {} should be a type error.

zerocount 5y ago
No, half the problems with JavaScript are because people refuse to learn it. Just don't write 1+{}. Every time people start bashing JavaScript, it's with these odd-ball examples that they make up.
- tadfisher 5y ago
  And this is how add_two_numbers becomes embedded in the node_modules of 73,000 projects on GitHub. It's okay if JS has warts, but denying they exist doesn't help anyone.
  - Akronymus 5y ago
    If JS just had stuck to LISP like syntax it'd be quite a bit more usable IMO.