I don’t work with web stuff, why is js so weird? Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?
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Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?
sure, as long as it compiles to javascript
Or wasm!
Most of the weirdness comes from being designed for the web, and specifically for working with forms. The value of a form field will always be a string, which is a simple and straightforward idea, but then the trouble showed up when we tried to make it more convenient to work that way.
Actually, most of the weirdness comes from having been originally designed in a matter of 10 days by a single engineer working to accommodate a tight release schedule.
It's a nice story, but it doesn't make any sense.
The goal of JS - just like with HTML Renderers - is to be as resilient as possible so that even a broken website will still run. You can omit the head tags, and not close your body and HTML tags - the browser will still do its best to render the website. The same goes for JavaScript. You are comparing 1234 to "1234"? I could fail with a catastrophic error and make the whole website crash - or I'll just pretend that you meant to parse the string as a number before the comparison.
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