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The meaning of this
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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TBF the last two bullet points are verbose descriptions of the thing it means in C++, Java, and Python too. It's just that in JS, "this" can also be used in other places.
But yeah, in practice, every time I write JS I want to throw my hands in the air and shout "this is bullshit", but never know what "this" refers to... :D
Yeah that's fair, though it also discusses that whole prototype thing that JS has going on