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I'll just sort it myself (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page, but a horrible one when you start using that language to handle serious data. Silently ignoring what's probably a bug is dangerous.

[โ€“] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page

And that is, of course, what it was designed for.

JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.