Everyone trash talking the JS ecosystem without contributing the slightest to the conversation would benefit a lot if they read https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags in order to understand the evolution of the language and its tooling.
Nobody argues what we currently have is great and that we shouldn't look to improve it. Reducing it to "JS developers bad" is an embarrassing statement and just shows ignorance, not only of the topic at hand, but of an engineering mindset in general.
I find the mindset of trying to understand and accept bad fine in moderation but as defeatist when taken past the end of the block. It doesn't matter why JS is bad and will harm your future prospects if you approach it with too much acceptance. We always need to be examining the practice in front of us and the theory that would be a better replacement for it and trying
to make the leaps at the right times to keep getting paid while not becoming part of the problem ourselves.
Science advances one funeral at a time applies to software with things going at a faster pace so a good software engineer needs to fake a few funerals or really be senior at 4 years to be dead by 7.
> “JS developers bad“
I found it to be a nice post that documents why things sometimes are bad. It didn’t feel accusatory at the developers themselves, but seemed to serve as a reasonable critique of the status quo?
I assume they were talking about the comments here, not the post which I agree is great.
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