Extreme Rules Lawyering with the ECMAScript Specifications

Nerds all over the galaxy agree: TECHNICALLY correct is the best kind of correct! So why not mine the ECMAScript specifications for some technically valid JavaScript programs that “work”, but only by exploiting a wide variety of obscure semantic loopholes on the way? This talk goes far beyond mere syntactical obfuscation and explores the absolute fringes of JavaScript—for fun and for very, very little profit. Let us summon forbidden objects, unearth unholy functions that are not meant to be developer-accessible, and abuse features that TC39 would REALLY like to sweep under the rug. Anybody can follow “best practices” and write “readable code”, so how about learning something actually new and unique? This session will instantly turn you into a living and breathing JavaScript infohazard, uniquely able to conjure up valid JavaScript programs that even ChatGPT could not hallucinate.