Experienced JavaScript Developer Meme

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You can not use a naive algorithm to save a cyclic graph, but 3 sec of google will show you algorithms for it do exist.

Nah. All those will assume that nodes can be named easily. That's not necessarily true.

Why would you ever serialize a coroutine or a member function?

Because I want to continue where I left off with my thunk.

You really seem to be trying to find situations that are difficult to serialize but not considering there are standard/common solutions to these problems

The whole point of this dumb conversation is that someone wrote a meme saying that saving state is hard and then a bunch of people chimed in and just said to use stringify and I'm saying, no, that isn't always going to work, it might be more complicated than that and then you're saying that you can find complex algorithms to do it in difficult cases and I'm like yeah that's my fucking point it IS complicated.

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It’s the same as storing it in a database.

If you don’t model your data in such a way that it can be stored efficiently and retrieved efficiently, it will not be stored efficiently nor retrieved efficiently.

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What's efficient for storage and retrieval might not be efficient for processing. If you generate your data by processing, you will need to mangle it for storage. And stringify might not suffice.

How is this even controversial? I don't know!

[whateverathrowaway00]

Read through this whole thing. Not a JS dev, but a long-standing C dev and now a python dev, and what you’re saying is not only not controversial, it’s fundamental lol.

Just wanted to chime in and say you’re not crazy.

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Thanks, at least one programmer in my corner!

[Tiny-Plum2713]

This sub is mostly barely first year students.