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Re:uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS by zerocount on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:39AM (#29469640)
No, half the problems with JavaScript are because people refuse to learn it. Just don't write 1+{}. Every time people start bashing JavaScript, it's with these odd-ball examples that they make up.
Re:uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS by tadfisher on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:50AM (#29469693)
And this is how add_two_numbers becomes embedded in the node_modules of 73,000 projects on GitHub.

It's okay if JS has warts, but denying they exist doesn't help anyone.

Re:uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS by Akronymus on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:58AM (#29473082)
If JS just had stuck to LISP like syntax it'd be quite a bit more usable IMO.