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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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I ... this seems like a std library made to troll you. Is there a (good) reason it is like that?
Backward compatibility and not seeing the future. Some decisions are taken at one point in time, then a new use case show up, then a new paradigm evolve, then… etc etc.
It's really the same thing that holds back a lot of languages and libraries. And even when replacement shows up, old habits from devs and old projects maintenance keep all these things well alive too.
early js/html liked to do something in all cases instead of throwing or whatever. I think it's mostly just a collection of them trying to do something smart on nonsense input and not being consistent about it.
side note, I'm so excited for Temporal, some browsers already support it and you can polyfill for the rest.
No.
I can only imagine it wasn't planned properly, cuz that's so many quiet behaviours without good parsing errors