@vaporeon_ I love JavaScript, so delete this please

@wallhackio But you don't love writing a computer game in JavaScript! (Or at least, I hope you don't love that...)

@vaporeon_ depends! https://corru.observer/ was written entirely in JavaScript and it is cool as shit

@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

@aescling @vaporeon_ 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

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ fur the record, the following alternative implementation is subtly but meaningfully diffurent:

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

arrow functions and functions defined with the function keyword have intentionally diffurent rules about resolving this

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ ​

@aescling @wallhackio @monorail Ms. Glaceon, please, we need that emoji
Maybe call it blobcat_eyeroll, for consistency

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @monorail “Ms. Glaceon”

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @monorail makes her sound like a very tall elementary school teacher

@aescling @wallhackio @monorail Elementary school with a Python code-golfing class

@vaporeon_ @aescling @wallhackio done

@monorail @vaporeon_ @aescling hi ms. glaceon you are so cool

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling ??

@monorail @vaporeon_ @aescling how is that confusing, it is simply an objective fact

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling i just don't understand the relevance to anything

@monorail @vaporeon_ @aescling it wasn't a reference to anything, you were just there and I felt like saying something nice