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by badminton1 3357 days ago
I think all technologies have sharp edges somewhere, and the way to stay afloat in this business is staying alert.

Testing assumptions help, be it through quick REPL experimentation or a unit test.

JavaScript has some bad fame around unintuitive behavior but you can find these styles of issues in most languages. A random example: Scala. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJycy6dFSQ