So if you’re not convinced yet that Javascript is a bad idea, perhaps a case study will help. It’s a good article, and the highlights are no surprise:
- ✓ Language with a syntax that makes it really easy to introduce unintended side effects with no warning.
- ✓ “Poor error handling and debugging”
- ✓ “Nothing I could do in best practice … would have caught the offending line”
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use Javascript!” Now they have two problems.
