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by _RPM 4209 days ago
I skimmed the article. I began to get anxiety once I realized how long it was. JavaScript is a very simple language. `this` in JavaScript is easy to understand. Long posts like this give me anxiety.
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It's like an exhaustive, confusing list of examples rather than explaining briefly the very simple and largely intuitive reasons that lead to these examples.
I'm reasonably smart, but I don't ever remember the various contextual meanings of "this". Maybe because when I use javascript I try to use frameworks that hide the need to think about it. It's a wart on the language in my opinion.