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The Magic of One-Line Variable Swapping in JS

February 4, 2026

If you're still using a temporary variable (`temp = a; a = b; b = temp;`) to swap the values of two variables in modern JavaScript (or Python!), you're working too hard. Thanks to array destructuring, you can accomplish this in a single, elegant line: `[a, b] = [b, a];`. It’s clean, highly readable, and a fantastic demonstration of modern language features that makes your code immediately more concise.