I think a lot about how Battlefield 1's menus were written in JavaScript so they could have their web developers build a videogame UI

The actually used React to make a game UI. Why.

The PS4 doesn't allow just-in-time compilation so you don't get the performance a modern javascript engine normally guarantees so on what planet is this a good idea

@wallhackio The JavaScript Planet, a dystopian world where JavaScript is the only programming language ever invented

@vaporeon_ I love JavaScript, so delete this please

@vaporeon_ I love JavaScript, so delete this please

@wallhackio How do I deallocate memory / destroy an object in JavaScript? So that I can delete this?

@vaporeon_ npm install memory-management

@wallhackio Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

And in standard JavaScript? No NPM?

@vaporeon_ it was a joke lmao

@wallhackio But can you do any memory management in JavaScript?

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio no

@aescling @vaporeon_

const deleteThis = () => {
    const temp = { _this: this };
    delete temp._this;
};

@aescling @vaporeon_ this will NOT do what it's being promised to do, this is a joke

@wallhackio @aescling What will it do?

@vaporeon_ @aescling it will create an object with a single property named _this that has the value of whatever this was where the arrow function was declared

and then it will delete that property from the object

@wallhackio @aescling So creating the object initializes _this with a copy of the value of this, and only that copy gets deleted?

@vaporeon_ @aescling yessir

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ not a copy but a refurence

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ what gets deleted is the refurence

@aescling @wallhackio Is a reference the JavaScript version of a pointer?

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio yeah basically

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio

const o = { k: 1 };

function changeObj(o) {
  o.k = 2
};

changeObj(o);
console.log(o);  // { k: 2 }

@aescling @wallhackio LOL, is that because the pointer is a constant, but the contents of the object are not? In C terms, what happens here is this, right?

changeObj(struct object *o) {
  o->k = 2;
}
main() {
  const struct object *o = new_object(1);
  changeObj(o);
  printf("k: %d\n", o->k);
}

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio yup

@aescling @wallhackio There are two types of languages: those that have explicit pointers and those that hide the concept of a pointer from the user and therefore become very confusing