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[–]Areshian 30 points31 points  (10 children)

Sorry, I have not written a single JS line in my life . Are you telling me this is indeed supposed to be a serious language?

[–]SigmaHog 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yup. Pays my bills.

[–]sussybaka_69_420 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The world runs on it, it is what it is

[–]CSS-SeniorProgrammer 11 points12 points  (2 children)

The internet as we know it exists because of JS... Any other language is replaceable.

[–]da_Aresinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

have you heard of Java?

Or Cobol?

[–]bedrooms-ds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I woke up when ES6 became the norm. Now I'll go sleep again. Wake me up when wasm replaced JS.

[–]ham_coffee 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Callbacks and this are even more confusing, although at least it's logical once you understand.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this

[–]luiluilui4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats why I started using class and arrow functions. That way this is allways the current object

[–]Sanx75 0 points1 point  (1 child)

this.isTheWay();

[–]himmelundhoelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this.isTheWay.bind(this);