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Series: Feel the cool, Basics, Closures, Recursion, Quotation, Lambda, Macros.
Continuing the series on Scheme, this video explains the ultimate alternative – when nothing else is flexible enough, we can create our own bits of lanugage using macros.
Category: JavaScript
JavaScript WTFs Videos
I recorded some videos of my JavaScript WTFs presentations:
You can get the JavaScript WTFs slides.
Update: all six episodes:
- JavaScript WTFs 1 – The Global Object
- JavaScript WTFs 2 – Equality and Inequality
- JavaScript WTFs 3 – Syntax
- JavaScript WTFs 4 – Reserved words and typeof
- JavaScript WTFs 5 – Arithmetic and parseInt
- JavaScript WTFs 6 – Arrays
Find them all on PeerTube:
JavaScript WTFs
I recently did a presentation at work on “surprising” things you may encounter in JavaScript. I present it here for your delectation:
Sorting arrays was the one that wasted me the most time. Arrays in JavaScript are a neat hack on top of objects. Given that, presumably, all modern implementations have a separate type for an array as opposed to an object, you would hope that at some point they would grow up into something really different in the language.