[HN Gopher] Wat [video] (2012)
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Wat [video] (2012)
 
Author : thunderbong
Score  : 43 points
Date   : 2023-03-29 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
web link (www.destroyallsoftware.com)
w3m dump (www.destroyallsoftware.com)
 
| jMyles wrote:
| My goodness; I haven't watched it in a couple years, and I have
| to say, I still literally laugh out loud.
| 
| The timing is just so solid.
| 
| I also want to say on a personal level that I really like Gary;
| he has been so friendly to me every time we've met.
 
| sublinear wrote:
| I'm not defending javascript, but I just want to say that all
| these are jabs at its type inference rules, the fact that an
| array is an object, and that the toString method for each type
| usually isn't that helpful by default.
| 
| None of this matters most of the time, but yeah it's still funny.
 
| dang wrote:
| Here are some of the related old threads. I was surprised that
| there was only one sizeable one about the video (3515845).
| Others?
| 
|  _Wat (2012) [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26850630 - April 2021 (28
| comments)
| 
|  _WAT - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash (2012)_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096614 - Aug 2015 (1
| comment)
| 
|  _Wat by Gary Bernhardt_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092845 - Aug 2015 (1
| comment)
| 
|  _Javascript -- Wat_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307393 - Aug 2013 (3
| comments)
| 
|  _WAT - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054676 - July 2013 (1
| comment)
| 
|  _The WHY of WAT - understanding why 'JavaScript is Crazy'_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517883 - Jan 2012 (52
| comments)
| 
|  _Wat_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515845 - Jan 2012
| (98 comments)
| 
| (Note: reposts are fine after a year or so -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Links like the above
| are just options for the curious.)
 
| Lev1a wrote:
| A true classic.
 
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