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submitted 9 months ago by JPDev to c/programmer_humor

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[+] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

by not ever using == and !=, but only === and !==

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Typescript :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep. It's the only reason I'm still somewhat sane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I got by without it for years, but not that I have it I have no idea how I did it back then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because in reality you're not doing stupid stuff like that in the image. And using Typescript definitely helps.

However I'm always annoyed that the month parameter when constructing a date object is 0 based. So 1st of Jan is

new Date(2024, 0, 1)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Looks confusing at first, but I found it nice for accessing a month array.

const months = ["Jan", "Feb", ...];

months[0] === "Jan";

const label = months[date.getMonth()];

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

By banishing the bad part of the language with linter.

For instance, standard eslint preset has rules that enforce usage of ===, https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/eqeqeq

These rules often come with project starter template

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

And typescript is basically just a linter on steroids

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

almost forced to for web front end. why you would use it anywhere else, however, i will never know

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The same reason people drive their car to buy groceries.

You bought it for something where it was the only option, driving 30km to work everyday. But ever since you got it, the trip to the super market is kinda too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter and what if you spontaneously need to buy more than expected?

People learn it for front end dev, and then they use what they know for back end too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ikr? English is hard /s