Ask HN: What's the weirdest JavaScript source code you've seen?

3 points by lhorie 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm writing a Javascript parser, and I wanted to try parsing unusual JS code found in the wild.

Weirdness can be abuse of unicode, code obfuscation, unusual programming paradigms, etc

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If you're not limited to 'production' javascript, code golfing sites like http://dwitter.net will be a good source of strange javascript!

I hope nobody's using it in production, but the "JS without letters" thing would probably tickle a few edge cases in a parser:

stiaje 9y ago ↗

Also, for _js without numbers_, this is the most compact way to write something that evaluates to the number 2: -~!""