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You want to hate programming? Try using JS. It's anarchy.
"Why is this the way to do things?"
"Because it just is."
Oh, and there's at last 2 other ways to do it too.
Sure, but they use ersatz methods that are so incredibly obscure and removed from the standard library that expecting one to know them is beyond foolhardy.
No clue what that means. I was thinking more along the lines of how there's 3+ techniques for async functions. Or that there's a handful of syntax implementations, versions, and supersets of the language. Or that there are many interpreters all with different standard libraries and quirks.
It's an annoyingly flexible language.
It just feels like anarchy to me. Why is anything the way it is in JS? Maybe I'm learning it wrong, but starting from zero, I now feel like I understand less than nothing.
Mostly its this way because the language has evolved over time and relies heavily on several similar but competing interpretations of how things should be done. Similar thing happened to PHP, back in the web1 days.
That makes sense. Every time I try to learn it, or am asked to do something in it only to reply "I can't", I feel so fucking stupid. How am I supposed to move up to senior SWE if I can't do JS?