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Gotta say, ive done magical things in Javascript. NodeJS in particular can do damn near anything you set your mind to, and it doesnt give a damn if you use tab or 4 spaces.
For real, you really can do anything there, sometimes sacrificing efficiency, but still.
Back in the day before enforcing code formatting via linting tools become commonplace, many programmers often ignore formatting at all and do whatever they please, mixing tabs and spaces in the same file, not indenting their code blocks, mixing camel case and snake case, and a whole lot of other formatting eyesores. One day Guido van Rossum decided enough is enough and created a programming language where such programmers are forced to behave, else their program wouldn't run. He named it Python because he often hiss at those annoying programmers during code reviews.