alt Hacker NewsNo, it’s footgunny and riddled with bugs. Most JS barely works and edge cases just aren’t addressed.
I’ve seen undefined make it all the way to the backend and get persisted in the DB. As a string.
JS as a language just isn’t robust enough and it requires a level of defensive programming that’s inconvenient at best and a productivity sink at worst. Much like C++, it’s doable, but things are bound to slip through the cracks. I would actually say overall C++ is much more reasonable.
> I would actually say overall C++ is much more reasonable.
This is where I know that, some people, are not actually programming in either of these languages, but just writing meme driven posts.
JS has a few footguns. Certainly not so many that it's difficult to keep in your head, and not nearly as complex as C++, which is a laughable statement.
You've "seen null make it to the database," but haven't seen the exact same thing in C++? Worse, seen a corrupted heap?