Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "JavaScript for the Haters" video.

  1. I mainly use MDN as my reference for things Web. That has handy compatibility matrices for all the important features (that I’ve come across so far), so I know to only use stuff where all the boxes are green.
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  2. Semicolons: yes or no? Once you understand the statement-continuation rule, you can do without!
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  3. 1:36 Echoes of λ-calculus! See, the thing with JavaScript is, it’s a mix of really dumb things and really advanced things that only CS majors (and LISP programmers) can appreciate. Compare this with PHP, which is a mix of really dumb things ... and that’s it.
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  4. You know how if you use “<script type="module"> ... inline content ... </script>” inside a web page, there is no module name to import from, so it would appear you cannot access any function defined in that inline content part from outside? Actually, there is a way you can.
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