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It's not the language, it's the IDE and laziness. They're doing this in notepad or maybe VSCode and don't have anything configured for highlighting or checking. Heck they probably don't even know how to interpret the error message saying "file_name is not declared".

I'm the first to bash JS, but this is not a JS issue. It's 100% a "bad and lazy" human actor that is throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. In this case, they have a minigun cannon called ChatGPT/CoPilot that is letting them do more of it than what they used to.




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