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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by orangeeater on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:31PM (#18850348)
> Among hundreds of other things, getting the return type of a method and getting the input parameter names (+ types) in a way that doesn't revolve around literally parsing the functions toString() representation.

Ah, that's quite cool.

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Re:The melting pot of JavaScript (2017) by orf on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:42PM (#18850463)
You can do almost anything with Java reflection, JS really pales in comparison.

Which in some ways is a good thing as you can do a lot more optimizations.

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