V8 release v6.8

Re:V8 release v6.8 by reitanqild on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:49PM (#17368155)

But Java is an actual well designed language. A bit verbose yes. Lacking generics early on, yes.

JavaScript however is in a way similar to PHP and I'd say more dangerous as, unlike PHP it doesn't have a ugly syntax to warn you.

I've been working in the JS ecosystem lately and suddenly crazy knowledge from my life as PHP programmer turns out to be useful:

- adding statements above a function or a class? No problem: will be run on loading the file just line in PHP.

- == not checking if things are equal? Just use === like in PHP

Thst said I'm really impressed with the ecosystem. It is just JavaScript the language that needs to be replaced.

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Re:V8 release v6.8 by reitanqild on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:45PM (#17376326)

Multiple downvotes, no correction.

I guess that is either the "shoot the messenger strategy" or what I said was so horribly wrong I should have seen it myself.

Whoever wonders which one is true can verify for themselves that except for the syntax modern PHP and JavaScript are surprisingly similar: )

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