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by xiaoma 3682 days ago
Over 90% of the first 100k LOC I wrote was ES5 JavaScript or CoffeeScript. I don't actually recall even a single instance when I was bitten by a bug related to lexical scope on the job. Maybe the problem is people expecting JavaScript to work like Java or some other block scoped language.

Async bugs, on the other hand, were nightmarish at times.
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x0x0 3681 days ago
Did you write the same 100 klocs of code in a language with lexical scoping before coming to js?
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xiaoma 3680 days ago
Another 100 klocs of code before my first 100 klocs of code? That wouldn't have been possible...
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