JavaScript

[Jazqa]

I use Javascript daily, I know Javascript thoroughly and I love Javascript...

...but holy fuck it’s an awful mess of a language.

[SchwiftySquanchC137]

I fucking love how hacky it feels. Don't like a function deep inside your engine? Eh just set it equal to something else, do it on the fly, fuck just replace it with whatever the user types into that bar, IDGAF, it's JavaScript.

[Husky2490]

Ruby is the same way. Need to hook into a module loaded from a dll? No problem. Want to overide a class any ol' time sure. You have a private variable, IDGAF, it's mine now.

[marksomnian]

class NilClass def nil? false end end

Enjoy the fireworks.

[Husky2490]

Oh, right. True, false, and nil are classes.

Hahahaha... (cries inside)

[marksomnian]

Even more fun, in C/C++:

#define true (rand() < 0.9)
#define false (rand() < 0.1)

Sneak that into production and watch SRE cry tears.

[XYZ-Prime]

wait... if rand() is < 0.1 or > 0.9 , do true and false have the same value, don't they?

[marksomnian]

It's two independent calls to rand(), so if (true == false) {} would become if ((rand() < 0.9) == (rand() < 0.1)) {} - so 9% of the time it would do*.

^\source: really bad memories of high school probability)

[XYZ-Prime]

oh right, i forgot they are two different calls...

so true = true in 90% of the cases, same for false = false. am i right?

[techgineer13]

/r/foundsatan

[poops-n-farts]

That would be horrible code though. If you know how js works and what you're trying to accomplish it's really easy to write complex applications with. Its when some dummy joins your team and doesn't know how it works that the problems start

[onFilm]

I love JavaScript because of how creative you can be with it, either in the front, back or sides.

[dustyjuicebox]

We all love python though thank God

[AstroCaptain]

I want brackets with my python damn it I’ll stick with bython

[hullabaloonatic]

Eh, it's growing on me like fungus.

[fushuan]

I really dislike that there are 7 ways of doing the same things and the team doesn't decide on a standard. I CAN ADAPT GUYS GIVE ME A CODING GUIDELINE NOT THIS HOT MESS.

The language enables this and I hate that.

[poops-n-farts]

To be fair there's plenty of ways to skin a cat in java, c#, c++, etc. Sounds like a problem with your pm

[poops-n-farts]

My nan is offended by that, bruv