the hardest exam question

You'll find an npm package to help you count up to 2.

(I recently learned - maybe here - that the is-even package has over 170k weekly downloads)

1. it's easy to make fun of
2. it makes every other programming language look better in comparison

1. It runs in browsers
2. If you hate your co-workers, then they will also feel your pain.

1. You can call it "Java" to enrage other programmers
2. You can compare numbers against strings without wasting time converting them

1. It's not PHP.
2. I don't know. I didn't think I'd get this far.

1. It runs in the browser
2. Web developers know it already so we might as well

1. Job security
2. its not COBOL

1. It has the simplest multi-threaded implementation: no threads!
2. You can goof off while your build system takes 20 minutes to rebuild a non-compiled language

1 - Easiest way to run a script in your browser
2 - Always finds its way if inputs are bad
Nan - undefined

I am forced to try to get a JS certification.

I am reaching the end of my rope, and starting to think of maybe putting my neck into one.

Isaac Newton said that we see far because we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Javascript is like standing on the shoulders of dwarves with brittle bone disease.

1. Ubiquitous; insane amount of libraries and probably some of the best documentation of any language
2. JS lambda function syntax is nice

It leads to typescript

You get surprises from npm

await and async

1. Is available to be used in website scripting.
2. Not quite as full of footguns as PHP (although it is close).

It has a cup of coffee as logo

The part that always gets me is when people choose Js for the backend. Like I get that it's the default thing that works on the frontend, so there's some rationale why you might not want to transpile to it from another language. On the backend though, there are so many far better option, why would you willingly go with Js, especially given that you're now forced to do all your IO async.

1. Its not java

A lot of people are familiar with it and........um....hackers like it being in use?

Write down any NaN advantages of JavaScript

It runs in browsers. It… isn’t poop? I don’t know. I’m all out of ideas.

God people it's getting old

Over what?

We have forced it, quite hamfistedly, to do anything. The organic hell-evolution of web browsers turned them into do-anything sandboxed mini-OS. It meant whatever hellish code you used to write your corporate mandated web app could now become a perfectly bloated standalone application. And the demonic language that would enable it was called Javascript. It does the backend and it does the frontend. You could consider those advantages over other devices, like toasters and those handheld electronic games from the 80s.

1. It at least feels slightly little bit like lisp.
2. Shit I'm f*ed

.. ah right, it runs on any browser. Lame

Easy revenge when leaving the job

Browsers love it!

Practically anything you write will execute without all that scope and well formed statements nonsense.

Mind you, number 2 is also its biggest flaw as well, but…

You can make minecraft mods

hmm, let's see.

It's not java.

It's also not a scripting language.

also to the repeat grammar nazi in the comments here, hi, "its"

Damn this is hard. I keep java script disabled by default so its hard to say anything good. I begrudgingly have to whitelist websites i need that cant run without it.

1. Stackoverflow codes on behalf of you

2. Can code browser extensions

1. Ajax.

2. Uhhh....

!!isAdvantage

1. Ubiquity
2. Easy adoption for those familiar with C family of languages

JIT compilation

You can make your speakers go BRRRRRRRRR via Home Assistant with it