dotfiles VS wtfjs

as an emacser, lua is not a big language, you can learn the basics in an afternoon and for configuring nvim with little experience with lua I managed to write just under three hundred lines of lua, its a great language even if I don't want to use it for much more than nvim

There is this script in my dotfiles. https://github.com/jeetelongname/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/.local/bin/http that I wrote and then promptly forgot about (due to adopting an actual http server) one thing to add is that you can empty a shell command outputs into to variables by putting them in backticks

Me in the interview: "Generally, no, a variable can only be assigned one numeric value at a time. However, Javascript is famous for unpredictable behaviors in variable comparison statements, for instance [] == ![]. There's actually a whole library built around documenting this type of behavior this for comedic value, and other more serious libraries geared towards solving the problem. So it's possible that some obscure variable assignment scenario would result in that line evaluating as true, but it's not something you'd expect to encounter in the real world. This has gotten a lot better with typescript and es2022, but still something you need to watch for a bit."

I do see that point of view, didn't think of that, there are some aspects of go which are a bit weird if you never touched lower abstraction languages, yet once you learn what they are, you are all set and you can code in anything. go has the least amount of gotchas I have seen in any programming language. compare it with loads of the weird stuff javascript does https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs and go is like heavenly lol

Its a very poorly designed language. Its syntax and semantics are often confusing and unpredictable. There is no well defined mental model of how constructs work in this language.

WTF JS

😎 A great guide to Javascript that is both simple and wonderful, but also difficult and fun that seems like bullshit. -> wtfjs