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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Best of the Worst – the most awful anti-features in JavaScript, ranked!

Peter Kröner

Why do fundamentally broken JavaScript features remain permanently unfixed? Discover the bizarre anti-features forever trapped in the language's architecture by the strict rule of infinite backwards compatibility.

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