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All programming languages have quirks.. By following best practices, making regular code reviews, code refactoring and actually learning when/how to use THIS most of the problems can be avoided.
And what about those problems that survive all of the above?
Well in that case we have automated tests, unit tests and plain old manual tests.
Cofounded Host Collective (DiscountASP.net). Cofounded Player Axis (Social Gaming). Computer Scientist and Technology Evangelist with 20+ years of experience with JavaScript!
"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and this is magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much is this costing us?
It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
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thisis integral part of JavaScript and replacing it with a third-party library, in my opinion, is out of question.I know it's not a big library but still it contributes to the bundle.
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The dependency and bundle cost is absolutely a cost that should be weighed when considering all packages. More people should think this way.
NULL is also an integral part of JavaScript. NULL has now been labeled the Billion dollar mistake. How much will THIS cost us?
All programming languages have quirks.. By following best practices, making regular code reviews, code refactoring and actually learning when/how to use
THISmost of the problems can be avoided.And what about those problems that survive all of the above?
Well in that case we have automated tests, unit tests and plain old manual tests.
"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and
thisis magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much isthiscosting us?It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
nothis