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I clicked through expecting some fiendishly clever trick involving weird Unicode characters and encodings or something. Nope, just people using a browser scripting language invented in 7 days on the backend by choice.

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The fault lies with library authors trying to be smart while being ignorant of how SQL works, not JavaScript necessarily.

What is up with all you people ragging Javascript the language? This is 100% programmer error, and has absolutely nothing to do with the language.

Javascript has plenty of bad points without making without making things up.

It's a meme on HN at this point. Lazy negative remarks about JS or other web technologies has high demand in the reader side too I guess.

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