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In your opinion, what is the most confusing part of JavaScript?

Tomasz Łakomy on May 16, 2019

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Xing Wang

this

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Eugene Karataev

Type coercion is definitely not obvious in JavaScript

[] == ![] // true 😱
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Ken Bellows

IMHO, don't ever ever ever use == in JavaScript. Always use === instead and forget about type coercion; just explicitly type-cast anything you need to.

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Eugene Karataev

It's a very rare case when you work on a project alone. Other developers can use == and it's necessary to understand how type coercion works.

I agree that most of developers consider == as evil. But Kyle Simpson (You don't know JS author) don't hate type coercion. Moreover, he recomments to use == where necessary.

In other words, coercion, especially implicit coercion, has usages where it actually improves the readability of our code.

Source.

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Matt Sparks

When I started writing JS it was hard to get an understanding of what prototype is and how it's used.

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Jonathan Kuhl

Closures. It's a complicated subject involving an understanding of how the execution context works and how variables are scoped and held within the JavaScript engine. It takes a lot of practice and theory for closures to finally click. It took me like six months to finally grok it.

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Laurie

Javascript has a lot of layers. Understanding what is controlling each piece can be hard to parse if you're new. I actually wrote something on this a while back.

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Norman

Newest confusion is parseInt. Just try and see what happens if you do parseInt(0.000000347)

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Manish Kumar

typeOf null = 'Object'

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Alexander Chudesnov

How come they didn't actually go with 'smoosh'?

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Philip Hallstrom

The ecosystem. Every time I come back to JS the tooling is entirely different. Makes it frustrating to get things done.

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Jonathan Sexton

I have a few things that I considered confusing when I started learning JS..scope, hoisting, closures, callbacks

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rhymes

The ecosystem around it

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romelmahmud

the most confusing part for me is Promies.