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some_random on June 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript Is Weird

The site is called "JavaScript Is Weird", not "Weird Javascript", even if they tell you that the examples aren't common they're still saying that this weirdness is unique to JS. Which definitely isn't true in the case of basic floating point precision problems

holtalanm on June 28, 2021 [–]

> The site is called "JavaScript Is Weird", not "Weird Javascript"

am i being punkd?

sli on June 28, 2021 | [–]

The former is a general statement about Javascript itself as a whole while the latter is describing a set of examples.

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