[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.