Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

Post by andrewzah » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

volgar1x wrote: post #25

simias wrote: post #23

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'. I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once ha…

who cares, it's just a 100-line long script that probably won't be maintained or used anymore

Post by hombre_fatal » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

    ;(async function () {
      try {
        // All your code
      } catch (e) {
        console.log(e)
      }
    })()

    ;(async function () {
      // All your code
    })().catch(console.error)

Post by ksahin » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

Post by lonelappde » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

quonn wrote: post #27

simias wrote: post #23

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'. I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once ha…

Modern JavaScript/TypeScript is fine. Especially when compared to Perl, of all languages.

Post by lonelappde » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

kerkeslager wrote: post #35

volgar1x wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

who cares, it's just a 100-line long script that probably won't be maintained or used anymore

I'm not sure I could count the number of 100-line long throwaway scripts that I wrote that are still being used in production systems before I realized how dangerous that idea is and stopped treating any code as throwaway code. If I show my code to another human, there's a chance it will end up in production. The Pragmatic Programmer says to throw away prototypes, but in practice it always seems easier to click the m…