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+title: "Things should fail loudly!"
+published: 4-1-2024
+summary: "A Python user talking about how they dislike JS"
+---
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+I really don't like JavaScript's tendency to fail quietly. I understand the rationale: broken webpages are everywhere. But something about the pervasiveness of `undefined` just hurts me.
+
+Let's compare two possible approaches for handling external data:
+
+-   throwing it into an unstructured blob and going through that
+-   converting it via a schema
+
+JavaScript seems to go with the first. It sucks. Special syntax for property access, conveniences for unexpected data, type coersion, etc.
+
+I don't have much of a point beyond that, because I do have a soft spot for TypeScript. I don't hate JavaScript as much as I probably should, and I use it for projects and I am fine poking at it for frontend development. Heck, I think CSS is scarier! But I do dislike how JavaScript lets errors pass silently.