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by breakfastduck 1651 days ago
> It never had anything close to a strong type system

Well yeah. It never claimed to have one.

You're blaming an ecosystem for being unstable, which while I agree, ultimately has nothing to do with the lang itself.

The fact we're discussing the fact one of the most simple libs of a language (logging to the console) can have such a widely felt exploit in such a 'mature' lang makes you're entire point very ironic.

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> You're blaming an ecosystem for being unstable, which while I agree, ultimately has nothing to do with the lang itself.

It has everything to do with the language. With no built-in module support (until recently!) and a weak type system, it's virtually impossible for Javascript to get anywhere near the stability of Java.

> makes you're entire point very ironic.

OP made an observation that we're having this conversation for this particular Java vuln but Javascript breakage never provokes anything like this. I don't understand where the ironing is. <insert-Princess-Bride-gif>