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Why JavaScript Is Harder to Master Than It Looks, One Developer's Lesson

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A developer with six years of Golang experience spent a year building vidstudio.app, a browser-based client-only video editor, and found JavaScript surprisingly difficult to write well. The project exposed more race conditions in a single year than the developer had encountered across six years of Go development. Most of the bugs were introduced unintentionally, highlighting how easy it is to write flawed JavaScript without realising it. One anticipated race condition proved the most instructive, as identifying it helped the developer articulate concretely why JavaScript is a challenging language to master.

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