JavaScript WTFs
March 30, 2012 [JavaScript, Programming Languages, Tech]I recently did a presentation at work on "surprising" things you may encounter in JavaScript. I present it here for your delectation:
Sorting arrays was the one that wasted me the most time. Arrays in JavaScript are a neat hack on top of objects. Given that, presumably, all modern implementations have a separate type for an array as opposed to an object, you would hope that at some point they would grow up into something really different in the language.
You can watch the videos here: JavaScript WTFs videos