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[–] [email protected] 3 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Depending on the design of its memory, a device with a full drive will literally weigh slightly more or slightly less than one with an empty drive. Charging the battery in all cases causes it to weigh more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

> want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

> 6 GB MSVC installation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

"It's so easy to compile C/C++ apps on Linux"

"Just run make install"

"If it doesn't work, fuck you, it worked on my machine"

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago

Hm. I've always found it harder to compile stuff on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

lol at 3/4 of a megabyte of Vue components being ok and thinking node_modules is the issue at hand.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The joke is always Javascript

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

JavaScript itself is fine. The problem is developers who import a library to add two numbers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 minutes ago

I don't know about "fine". It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. "There's more than one way to do it" is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren't quoted.

const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It's not. It's { "foo": "world" }

But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of "foo"

You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

There's also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

console.log([] == [])

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe we wouldn't need external libraries to do basic things if JavaScript had a standard library

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The thing you want from jQuery was added to all browsers in 2018.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

What is this crazy talk??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 55 minutes ago

Oh Hells no.

JavaScript is NOT fine, it's .... I'm really trying to think of a word that will convey the shit that it is without triggering half the people on Lemmy into an aneurysm, but I can't find it.

JavaScript is by far the worst. I've been working with JavaScript for the past 6 days and I want to hang myself, it'd be a better fate than continuing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Or ship a browser to run a script.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Use the modulo operator? Nah. Need to import the isEven library and a ton of other unnecessary sub-50 LOC libraries "maintained" by a single dev to make their CV look more impressive. /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago

Excuse me, but it’s industry practice to always use PlusJs.

Its just annoying that it has its own dependency on MinusJs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

A package manager that does hard-linking helps.