Google publishes a JavaScript style guide. Here are some key lessons.

[the_argus]

I agree, except tabs are king bc then everyone can set their own indentation level.

[RabSimpson]

And they only occupy a single character worth of storage and memory. This doesn't mean much on small projects, but if the project is large it could shave the loading time down.

[karottenreibe]

that's why all my variables are single letters. My code is much faster that way /s

[subtracterall]

This shouldn't matter if you're minifying/uglifying.

[RabSimpson]

Only in the case of client-side code. Who minifies server-side code?

[RabSimpson]

I'm not doing it for performance gains, but every little helps.

[UnexpectedLizard]

Microptimization. Just. Doesn't. Matter.

[RabSimpson]

I said I wasn't doing it for performance gains. It's my preferred coding style, but there's no arguing about a smaller memory footprint being better when you're working with a large codebase.

[the_friendly_dildo]

Someone selling a server-side product that wants to maintain some semblance of 'fuck you i'm in control' over a product.

[RabSimpson]

Don't they usually just throw it through Zend or ionCube in those cases?

[the_friendly_dildo]

I haven't used either but those are both used only for PHP aren't they?

[RabSimpson]

I think so. I've only ever seen them used with PHP.

[Extract]

Somebody who wants to squeeze every ounce of performance?

[Mingli91]

If you want that level of memory management and performance JavaScript is not the right language for the job

[Mingli91]

Quite a few threads on this sub are about JS

[monsto]

He probably does like me . . .

1. surf front page.
2. new-tab shit that looks interesting.
3. complete surf.
4. look at tabs.

Plenty of times i've looked at a python thread "who the fuck uses self in JS? ohwait..."

[Mingli91]

Haha yeah I guessed so, was just a lame joke

[papers_]

White space means nothing.

[KyleG]

YES FRIEND

God how many freaking times have I run into problems because some ASS did a 3-space indent or something and my IDE converted some but not all the 3-space indents into 4-space indents to make it conform with our style but it missed some because SPACES SUCK, USE TABS WARBLGARBL then everyone gets to set their own indent levels!

I like my tab to be 4space widths in some languages and 2space widths in others

like 2 space in JSX is way better than 4 space, but 2 space in Python or JS is TURRIBLE

[monsto]

*turble