People, The Good Parts
summary
An art project named poetry.js runs executable poems that expose concrete JavaScript behaviors: implicit globals and surprising type coercion, an infinite loop caused by own property shadowing the prototype (a simple delete prevents the loop), and different output under IE10’s delayed compilation optimization. The pieces deliberately demonstrate hoisting—hoisting saves the day—and small runtime quirks to argue JavaScript’s tiny core plus extensibility enabled the project to work and to reveal where people err and improve.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47The Good Parts
- 1:25Prototypal Inheritance
- 5:00Poetry Jas
- 10:08Infinite Loop
- 11:22Own Property
- 12:06Art and Fear
- 14:18We Dont Like Change
- 15:11Little Coder
- 19:15Conclusion
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