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JavaScript Is a Little Bit More, It's Almost More Biological.
As a physicist, like you get really used to having often very clean categories and some notion of sort of correct categories. Programming is a little messier, maybe than physics, but it still has a lot of things that are literally binary in the sense of they're a Boolean value. I always feel like JavaScript seems a little bit more, it's almost more biological. There's no real uniformity or consistency, it evolved to be whatever it is. If you want to delete a DOM element, you need to find the parent and then delete the child. This is crazy as a design where something like Python seems much more like, yeah, they tried to make a language that was pretty consistent