r/programminghorror • • Nov 07 '25

Javascript Technically horrifyingly correct

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3.9k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Dec 04 '25

Javascript "It's all there in the specs, bro"

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2.5k Upvotes

Seems we have some fervent JS defenders, here :)

r/programminghorror • • Aug 02 '26

Javascript my friend didnt know how to use async sleep in javascript, so he wrote this massive chain of .then()

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1.9k Upvotes
async function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms * 1000));
}

// used as:
sleep(0.5).then(() => {
  // ...
  sleep(2.5).then(() => {
    // ...
    sleep(1).then(() => {
      // ...
    }
  }
}

r/programminghorror • • Jun 12 '25

Javascript Javascript is filled with horror

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2.4k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Dec 29 '24

Javascript God damn it brother..

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7.1k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Mar 31 '26

Javascript HELL

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3.1k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jun 28 '21

Javascript I was getting errors and couldn't pinpoint it... Turns out there was a ZERO WIDTH SPACE character that I could not see...

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10.9k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Nov 04 '24

Javascript i don't even know where to begin

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r/programminghorror • • Nov 24 '25

Javascript Wasted all of my generational luck just for this

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2.2k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Dec 11 '24

Javascript +10h of debugging later, I found this. Javascript, WTF?!

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2.4k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jun 09 '21

Javascript "Coding is like poetry" The code:

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6.5k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Sep 16 '25

Javascript On today's episode of "What are you doing JS?"

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903 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Apr 05 '22

Javascript My companies Stripe integration for thousands of users broke today because Javascript

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2.1k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • May 27 '26

Javascript Destructuring strings

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893 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Apr 01 '25

Javascript Correct error handling from a multi-million dollar site

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2.0k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 11 '25

Javascript This is an active production api at my work, I don't think I need to explain.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Apr 10 '22

Javascript Code base in my last company

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2.9k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jan 17 '22

Javascript Method written by an intern a while ago

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1.3k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 03 '21

Javascript Frameworks are bad; copy+paste is good.

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r/programminghorror • • Jul 25 '24

Javascript I MEaN, iT wOrKs

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1.1k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 28 '25

Javascript we have uuid at home

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1.7k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Sep 24 '25

Javascript try → catch → Stack Overflow

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2.5k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Oct 29 '20

Javascript "Hello World" crashes Chrome. Plz help.

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3.0k Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 28 '26

Javascript Seriously? Recursive Regex?

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562 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Oct 01 '24

Javascript not sure that's how JSON was intended to be used…

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1.2k Upvotes