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The Horrifying Truth About JavaScript Arrays

The Horrifying Truth About JavaScript Arrays
The moment when JavaScript's existential truth bomb hits you like a freight train. In JS, arrays are just objects where the keys happen to be sequential numbers! That calm developer on the left is about to have their entire worldview shattered with this realization. It's that special kind of programming horror when you realize your mental model of a fundamental data structure was a comfortable lie. Next thing you know, you're trying myArray["1"] instead of myArray[1] just to prove to yourself that reality is broken. Welcome to JavaScript, where arrays are objects, undefined is not null, and NaN !== NaN. Sweet dreams!

On Today's Episode Of "What Are You Doing JS?"

On Today's Episode Of "What Are You Doing JS?"
OH. MY. GOD. JavaScript, you absolute DRAMA QUEEN! ๐Ÿ’… Look at this chaotic hellscape of array and object addition! Empty array plus empty object? "[object Object]". But switch the order and suddenly it's ZERO?! And then we throw in parentheses and JavaScript has a complete existential crisis and gives us "NaN" like it's having a nervous breakdown! This is why we can't have nice things in frontend development. JavaScript is that toxic friend who changes the rules every time you think you understand them. I'm literally DYING at how it's just making up math as it goes along. Type coercion? More like type CONFUSION, honey! ๐Ÿ™„