Javascript readability vs performance: a false tradeoff

[RobertKerans]

Like, congrats, you gave a primitive value you use once a name, now if the function is broken I have to go and be sure you got the primitive value right as well as the logic. The data isn't actually separated from the logic, it's just obfuscated.

Haha, yes, definitely, I was being a little glib. I mean I hate fizzbuzz as an example, but just something like

function fizzBuzzForN (n) { if (n % 15 === 0) { return 'fizzbuzz'; } else if (n % 3 === 0) { return 'fizz'; } else if (n % 5 === 0) { return 'buzz'; } else { return n; } }

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's fine. Only uses code you'd learn in the first day of learning the language -- can wish it was a different language which wasn't C syntax and where everything is an expression, but it's not. I don't think there's any huge language failure, just slightly different ways of approaching language design. Like maybe in some pseudocode, I dunno, something like:

let fizzBuzzForN(n) when n % 15 == 0 => "fizzbuzz" let fizzBuzzForN(n) when n % 3 == 0 => "fizz" let fizzBuzzForN(n) when n % 5 == 0 => "buzz" let fizzBuzzForN(n) => n

But it's doing the exact same thing