[diego_sandoval]

I thought it was going to be about JS and npm, given some of their fiascos [1][2][3]

[1] https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-...

[3] https://www.sonatype.com/blog/everything-matters-why-the-npm...

[minikomi]

`this` was mostly prevented in JS with the introduction of arrow function expressions

[alternatex]

I had someone on Reddit r/webdev try to convince me that 'this' was not a mistake but a powerful language feature. A small glimpse into the mind of JS fans.

[xboxnolifes]

Sounds like something any programmer would say about their preferred language. Can't say you don't hear similarly crazy things about C, or C++, or Java.

[alternatex]

True. But it's generally only common with older C-based languages where the goal was packing as many features as you can instead of high level design aimed to guard software from inexperienced overeager devs.

[orf]

It kinda is a powerful language feature But with great power comes great responsibility, and that doesn’t mean it was a good idea in hindsight.

[_old_dude_]

Yes, it's functions vs methods. You can make this explicit like in Python, you can make it implicit but have two kinds of methods, instance methods and static methods like in C++/C#/Java.

And you have JavaScript were all functions have an implicit this ...

[pjc50]

If it didn't exist, people would come up with weird hacks to implement the few cases where you do need it. But those are rare.