Understanding JavaScript confusion
JavaScript is an incredible language that has been the engine of transformation for web application development. I love JavaScript and will extol its virtues to anyone foolish enough to ask; it is one of the most fluid and expressive languages I have used.
That said, JavaScript is a little odd and it causes confusion. At first glance, JavaScript looks like any other programming language, which gives programmers new to the language a sense of confidence. That confidence does not last, and it is only a matter of time until the separate searches on Stack Overflow begin.
JavaScript isn��t like other mainstream languages. To see the most confusing features, replace the contents of the index.js
file with the code shown in Listing 3.7.
Listing 3.7: Replacing the contents of the index.js file in the primer folder
function sum(first, second) {
return first + second;
}
let result = sum(10, 10);
console.log(`Result value: ${result...