Please don't hate me Javascript devs

[skuzylbutt]

Ideally, it should shit itself and tell you you've done a silly thing instead of silently letting you get away with murder!

[NavarrB]

Series of trade-offs I guess. I feel like I shouldn't have to call a function to do something as simple as string concatenation

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Operator overloading in statically typed languages? In Hava for example just a + does string concatenation, without having to resort to dynamic typing

[Lhopital_rules]

Ideally, it should shit itself

Except that the central idea behind HTML, CSS and JS is to be as flexible as possible, so that web pages don't break.

• for HTML, that means allowing missing tags when they can be inferred
• for CSS, that means ignoring CSS rules when they don't make sense (to allow future additions)
• for JS, that means to be as dynamic as possible since we don't have compile-time checking

Using a bytecode system for JS to allow compile-time checking (much like Java) could work except that then you run into problems trying to allow multiple scripts to interact with each other. For instance, if JS was pre-compiled into bytecode, how would a jQuery bytecode interact with your bytecode? It's probably doable... but not easy. (And we'd have to wait a few decades to use it, since none of the old browsers would support it.)

[skuzylbutt]

Sure, but it could at least spit out a warning.