The Wat talk is mostly BS for laughs. It's hilarious but to someone familiar with the language it's a bunch of stuff you'd mostly never run into. Some are even

The Wat talk is mostly BS for laughs. It's hilarious but to someone familiar with the language it's a bunch of stuff you'd mostly never run into. Some are even outdated. Like he makes fun of the fact that Array(16).toString() prints 15 commas. In the context of the talk it's funny but in reality, what would you expect. You made a array with 16 empty elements. Array.toString() calls toString() on each element and separates them by commas. Why is that unexpected? He then shows Array(16).join("wat") which is the same as the previous except JS uses "wat" between elements instead of "," "wat" + 1 is string + number coerced to string so string + string. string + is defined as concatenation "wat" - 1. There is no override for - for a string so numeric minus tries to add a string to a number and returns NaN. Ok, why is that unexpected? When will this bite you. You shouldn't be adding numbers to string or strings to numbers. I've been programming JS for ~20 years, I don't remember running into any of these issues. I've also never tries to add to arrays, add an object and an array, add an array and an object, nor add 2 objects. It's funny that the language does something but so what. You wanna talk about a language that sucks try bash. Meanwhile I've had no problems shipping 100s of projects in JS. (also, C, C++, C#, perl, python, assembly, others)