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The meme starts with a noble plea to "STOP making fun of different programming languages" followed by compliments for various languages: C is FAST, Java is POPULAR, Ruby is COOL, Python is BEAUTIFUL, Haskell is INTRIGUING... and then there's just "JavaScript" with no compliment whatsoever. The silent burn is absolutely devastating. Even in a post about not making fun of languages, JavaScript still gets thrown under the bus by omission. The programming equivalent of your mom saying she loves all her children equally and then forgetting to mention you.

Content Post privv emilpriver Follow Hear me out. JavaScript on the kernel 4:17 PM 26 Feb 24 3,406 Views 1 Repost 3 Quotes 46 Likes 1 Bookmark 17

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Content C Closed miku-chan03 opened this issue on 18 Oct 2017 2 comments miku-chan03 commented on 18 Oct 2017 Contributor HI 1 fixie wixied the JSON-api fucksy wucksie!!! xp I repwaced the Prototypes. func wiff a more -streamlined- kawaii Pwototypiee. funkywunks object that make the JS go sooper dooper fast!! XD starts twerking Can u pwease merge my pwull wequest senpai?!! UwU gaearon commented on 19 Oct 2017 Contributor what in the name of fuck gaearon closed this permanently on 19 Oct 2017

Every developer has that phase where they think reinventing the wheel is somehow more efficient than using a battle-tested library. Sure, why use a well-documented, community-supported JavaScript library when you could spend three weeks creating your own utils folder that's basically a worse version of Lodash? The best part? By the time you're done, you've created 1000 utility functions that do things like "add two numbers" and "check if a string is empty" - functions that probably already exist in the standard library. But hey, at least you understand every line of code in your bloated codebase, right? Nothing says "professional developer" quite like maintaining your own implementation of leftPad() . Pro tip: Your future self will hate current you when they have to debug your custom date formatting function at 2 AM instead of just importing moment.js or date-fns.

Nothing quite like having a principal dev who's been maintaining that legacy COBOL system since the Reagan administration get schooled by the 23-year-old who just finished a React bootcamp. The confidence of fresh grads who think their 6 months of JavaScript experience qualifies them to refactor a battle-tested system that's been running production for 15 years is truly something to behold. Meanwhile, the senior dev is standing there thinking about all the edge cases, technical debt, and production incidents that aren't covered in the latest Medium article the junior just read. But sure, let's rewrite everything in the framework-of-the-month because "it's how it's done now."