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@superSGHP different ways of working, different projects have different needs. our last museum installation was js w/no linter or static checks. it worked eventually but taking ~10m to find out i made a typo in a function in the middle of the experience was... actually badOn twitter.com
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@superSGHP tbh most of the issue is global scope, which is a bad habit js and friends picked up from the roaring 90s. eg why does this code compile at all? it will fail 100% of the time. buuut a global variable bax *might* have been introduced by the time foo is run, so it has to compile...Permalink On twitter.com
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@superSGHP this is just bad language design. i dont gain anything by running foo. global variables are not a thing youre even supposed to do, but their existence makes this otherwise incorrect code impossible to filter out at compile time. so, best compromise in js is linter warnings...Permalink On twitter.com
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