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by zeveb 3839 days ago
> I can't believe people still bash JavaScript.

== vs ===

!==

hasOwnProperty

> Also, testing with JS is amazing - Especially unit testing on Node.js. It lets you do stuff like redefine entire objects, properties or methods at runtime (for stubbing).

Doable in Common Lisp for 21 years…

> Also, JS is great for writing asynchronous logic.

ITYM JavaScript has first-class functions. So does Lisp, so does Python, so does Go…