I am a frontend dev. JavaScript (well, TypeScript) is my bread and butter. Even knowing its quirks I never would have thought how inconsistent Date actually is. I encourage everyone to try this quiz.
This is what JavaScript haters should bring forth, not 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3!
Except for some reason "2" is interpreted as a month, and the year is set to 2001.
Aight I'm out
The quirks in this quiz aren’t even universal, and vary based on which browser you’re using. See the table at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/parse#non-standard_date_strings
Also I got 13/28 😑
I got 10/28, but I was crying after the 7th question
I scored 13/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Oof. I’ve been a JS dev since 1998.
If you're not very familiar with JS, watch the Wat talk before taking the quiz to know what to expect from this wonderful language.
Alright, enough making fun of languages that suck…let’s talk about JavaScript.
Ha this is even worse than I could have imagined!
Can we start a new web with a better language/platform already?
I got a 4/28 and got told I would have scored higher if I guessed at random. Ouch. (I am not a dev)
Nobody understands JavaScript. It's the quantum mechanics of the software world.
Can we sue Oracle back for any of this?
I did not do well:
"I scored 9/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media."
Ive been a dev for a long time. Im glad im not doing javascript all that much anymore.
It only took one question for me to start wanting to flip tables.
I scored 10/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Thank god Temporal is finally in Stage 3, and already rolled out in Firefox. I can't wait to be done with JS's Date forever.
I scored 17/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Idk anything about Date but got pretty far with intuition of JS whackiness
9/28. WTF'ing through 90% of the questions.
Great quiz. It teaches you the rules while training you to expect the unexpected, even in the rare cases that the rules are applied consistently.
I got exactly half the questions right.
7/28. Of course no one would ever do most of those things, they are interesting to think about but with little practical use.
Not the best with js, but that quiz was fun.
This is just a good reminder of human nature to make bad choices (using JS) and stick with them forever.
12/28
Surprised that I got this score when I only know python
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