[HN Gopher] Wat [video] (2012) ___________________________________________________________________ Wat [video] (2012) Author : thunderbong Score : 43 points Date : 2023-03-29 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.destroyallsoftware.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.destroyallsoftware.com) | jMyles wrote: | My goodness; I haven't watched it in a couple years, and I have | to say, I still literally laugh out loud. | | The timing is just so solid. | | I also want to say on a personal level that I really like Gary; | he has been so friendly to me every time we've met. | sublinear wrote: | I'm not defending javascript, but I just want to say that all | these are jabs at its type inference rules, the fact that an | array is an object, and that the toString method for each type | usually isn't that helpful by default. | | None of this matters most of the time, but yeah it's still funny. | dang wrote: | Here are some of the related old threads. I was surprised that | there was only one sizeable one about the video (3515845). | Others? | | _Wat (2012) [video]_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26850630 - April 2021 (28 | comments) | | _WAT - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash (2012)_ | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096614 - Aug 2015 (1 | comment) | | _Wat by Gary Bernhardt_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092845 - Aug 2015 (1 | comment) | | _Javascript -- Wat_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307393 - Aug 2013 (3 | comments) | | _WAT - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054676 - July 2013 (1 | comment) | | _The WHY of WAT - understanding why 'JavaScript is Crazy'_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517883 - Jan 2012 (52 | comments) | | _Wat_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515845 - Jan 2012 | (98 comments) | | (Note: reposts are fine after a year or so - | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Links like the above | are just options for the curious.) | Lev1a wrote: | A true classic. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-29 23:00 UTC)