Why People Hate Javascript
JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world - but also one of the most memed on and hated. Why is that?
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I’m Maddy, a senior software engineer (prev. at Google), with prior internships at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, IBM, and Amazon. Sharing my journey here - thanks for watching 🤍
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📖 timestamps
0:00 intro
0:31 type coercion
1:41 equality
3:11 null vs. undefined
3:42 custom functions
4:44 “this”
5:36 JS is different
8:10 can I avoid JS?
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