JavaScript Is Weird

#1

Post by robin_reala » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:12 AM UTC

JavaScript Is Weird
jsisweird.com

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#2

Post by the_duke » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

Buggy in Firefox (89): gets stuck on the second question.

Works fine in Chrome.

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#3

Post by nodejs_rulez_1 » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

> JavaScript is a great programming language, but ...

Why are we so afraid to call trash "trash"? It's not attacking the creator, but just how can we make progress if things are not perceived as they are?

https://wtfjs.com

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#4

Post by krylon » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

The questions covering floating point are not really weird, or rather their weirdness is not specific to Javascript.

It's a fun quiz nevertheless, at least for someone like me who is not very proficient in Javascript.

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#5

Post by ZoomZoomZoom » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

Especially weird was that the quiz stuck at question 2 and kept resizing and shifting the position of the question text on selecting any answer until the quiz ended.

CSS in the console is a nice touch though.

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#6

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

nodejs_rulez_1 wrote: post #3

> JavaScript is a great programming language, but ... Why are we so afraid to call trash "trash"? It's not attacking the creator, but just how can we make progress if things are not perceived as they are? https://wtfjs.com

[deleted]

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#7

Post by masklinn » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

The awful letterspacing makes it very hard to know whether strings are empty or single spaces.

(They’re all empty strings).

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#8

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

nodejs_rulez_1 wrote: post #3

> JavaScript is a great programming language, but ... Why are we so afraid to call trash "trash"? It's not attacking the creator, but just how can we make progress if things are not perceived as they are? https://wtfjs.com

[deleted]

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#9

Post by krylon » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

the_duke wrote: post #2

Buggy in Firefox (89): gets stuck on the second question. Works fine in Chrome.

It worked fine for me (Firefox 89 on openSuse Tumbleweed). Maybe some add-on is interfering?

Re: JavaScript Is Weird

#10

Post by vorticalbox » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC

if you block JS you get this message

> This website is literally about JavaScript. I mean what did you expect, a .NET application? This website is 99.9% poorly optimized and highly questionable JS. And yet, you have JS turned off.