alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoI'll just sort it myselfsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1926arrow-down112
arrow-up1914arrow-down1imageI'll just sort it myselfsh.itjust.worksalphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarejmcslinkfedilinkarrow-up68arrow-down2·1 year agoWhich is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page, but a horrible one when you start using that language to handle serious data. Silently ignoring what’s probably a bug is dangerous.
minus-squareseitanic@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year ago Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page And that is, of course, what it was designed for. JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.
Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page, but a horrible one when you start using that language to handle serious data. Silently ignoring what’s probably a bug is dangerous.
And that is, of course, what it was designed for.
JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.