It's Not Wrong that " ".length == 7
It’s Not Wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7 But It’s Better that "🤦🏼♂️".len() == 17 and Rather Useless that len("🤦🏼♂️") == 5 From time to time, someone shows that in JavaScript the .length of a string containing an emoji results in a number greater than 1 (typically 2) and then proceeds to the conclusion that haha JavaScript is so broken—and is rewarded with many likes. In this post, I will try to convince you that ridiculing JavaScript for this is less insightful than it first appears and that S