Programmer Humor

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago

by not ever using == and !=, but only === and !==

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because in reality you're not doing stupid stuff like that in the image. And using Typescript definitely helps.

However I'm always annoyed that the month parameter when constructing a date object is 0 based. So 1st of Jan is

new Date(2024, 0, 1)

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[+] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago*

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[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Looks confusing at first, but I found it nice for accessing a month array.

const months = ["Jan", "Feb", ...];

months[0] === "Jan";

const label = months[date.getMonth()];

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Typescript :)

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yep. It's the only reason I'm still somewhat sane.

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I got by without it for years, but not that I have it I have no idea how I did it back then.

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[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

almost forced to for web front end. why you would use it anywhere else, however, i will never know

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[–] Turun@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

The same reason people drive their car to buy groceries.

You bought it for something where it was the only option, driving 30km to work everyday. But ever since you got it, the trip to the super market is kinda too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter and what if you spontaneously need to buy more than expected?

People learn it for front end dev, and then they use what they know for back end too.