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by _bxg1 2270 days ago
This is satire but it's pretty lame and unconvincing satire, so much so that I didn't realize it until about 1/3 of the way in. The funniest thing here is a Go developer complaining about JavaScript's unpredictable behavior.

I'm not going to take the bait and start a flame-war. I will just say that odd quirks don't make either of them a bad language because they each have many other benefits. And that the author shouldn't quit his day job to become a comedian.
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marcosdumay 2270 days ago
> unconvincing satire, so much so that I didn't realize it until about 1/3 of the way in

Hum... I have some news for you.

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_bxg1 2270 days ago
"Unconvincing" of the underlying point it was trying to make.
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marcosdumay 2270 days ago
Oh, ok. This makes sense.

The underlying point was to make fun of Javascript. That's an usual activity developers do when bored, so I'm not sure the author was trying to convince anybody. But I do agree, if he was trying to convince anybody, he failed.

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