alt Hacker NewsI would say that reflection in JS is terrible compared to .NET. You can only just barely figure out what is in an object, but it's a hell of a time figuring out what any of those things can do. I wouldn't so much as call what JS does "reflection" any more than "making objects out of poorly implemented hashmaps."
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> I wouldn't so much as call what JS does "reflection" any more than "making objects out of poorly implemented hashmaps."
I used "reflection" because that's how it's abstracted in popular statically typed languages. My point was that JS has abstractions and idioms that eliminate some of the need for design patterns like, factory, decorator, strategy, etc., and some of the reasons are because JS's core objects are basically just fancy hashmaps.
>You can only just barely figure out what is in an object
There's a couple really well documented and understood ways of doing this in the language. I'm not sure what you're specifically referencing without more information.
>I wouldn't so much as call what JS does "reflection" any more than "making objects out of poorly implemented hashmaps."
Is this anymore different than .NET deriving everything from a base `System.Object`[0] type?
Also, what is missing in JS reflection wise that you can't do that would make sense for its environment? (namely, this excludes compile time reflection stuff I know .NET can do, it wouldn't make sense for a scripting language as it currently is)
[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.object?v...