JavaScript TC39 New Year Party Celebrates 'use using' Directive Absurdity

Description

A meme showing a scene from what appears to be a New Year's Eve party (likely from the movie Forrest Gump), with two men in a crowded, confetti-filled celebration. One man wears a green party hat and the other has long hair covered in confetti, looking miserable while surrounded by celebration. Overlaid on the lower-left is a dark code block containing: '"use using"' as a directive string, followed by 'using use = useUsing("use")' -- a satirical JavaScript/TypeScript snippet playing on the TC39 'using' keyword proposal combined with React's 'use' hook naming convention. The watermark 'devme.me' appears in the bottom right. The contrast between the party atmosphere and the depressed developer face captures the feeling of watching JavaScript evolve into increasingly absurd syntax

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Javascript LanguageQuirks Ecmascript TypeScript NamingConventions React Syntax LanguageEvolution JavaScriptEcosystem DeveloperFrustration

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick 'use using' is just JavaScript completing its transformation from a language into a tongue twister -- next up: 'using use useUsing to use the using use.'

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

'use using' is just JavaScript completing its transformation from a language into a tongue twister -- next up: 'using use useUsing to use the using use.'
@fromgate 6mo

It's useful
1. @SamsonovAnton 6mo
  
  Does it have usability issues, though? Can it be misused? Have any cases of abuse been reported?
@deimossos 6mo

What could possibly be the context for this
1. @tema3210 6mo
  
  Use context)
  
  @deimossos 6mo
  
  perhaps
2. @b7sum 6mo
  
  a hat party
@VexelX 6mo

Pretty usable
@deimossos 6mo

I've looked it up and it seems like something related to react hooks. Thank god I don't do web dev
@tema3210 6mo

Hook that allows to suspend rendering for async operation. Previously required tons of code
@paranoidPhantom 6mo

Brain tumor called “composables”
1. @tema3210 6mo
  
  and they do compose actually (into one big GUI (disease))