The Eternal JavaScript Rabbit Hole

Content BACK VOCALIST Gets a fraction of frontman's paycheck Can't take a break during work hours Drinks to forget old memories from work Has to work in synch with frontman Noone will probably notice your mistake BACKENDER Gets roughly the same pay as frontender Seems like he's always on a break drinking coffee Drinks with sysadmin to aquaire old memories from work Can work both synchronous and asynchronous 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

Ancient Roman roads standing strong after 2000+ years vs JavaScript packages that become archaeological artifacts before you finish your coffee. The Unix utilities from the 80s are out here being the immortal legends they were born to be, while your JS dependency tree is already deprecated, broken, and probably has 47 critical security vulnerabilities. Like, imagine explaining to a Roman engineer that our modern code has a shelf life shorter than milk. They built roads that literally still carry traffic today, and we can't even keep a package working through a minor version bump without everything catching fire. The durability gap is SENDING me.

Content Eddy Vinck JavaScript EddyVinckk Web developers in 2020: If we split our JavaScript into separate files and load them on demand we can make the initial request to the homepage 30Kb smaller Game developers in 2020: Here's a 110Gb download including files we're not even using anymore 7:37 PM Jul 13, 2020 Twitter for Android 1 View Tweet activity 29 Retweets 168 Likes

Your IDE is like that overeager ensign who reports problems before you've even had a chance to finish typing. Create a variable, look away for half a second, and suddenly your editor's throwing red squiggly lines everywhere like there's a warp core breach. Listen, computer—I'm giving her all she's got. Some of us need more than 3 milliseconds between declaration and implementation.

The four horsemen of programming reality: what people think (hardware surgery), what parents think (rocket science), what you think (complex algorithms), and what you actually do (Googling "How to use dates in Javascript" for the 47th time this week). Nothing says "senior developer with 10 years experience" quite like having absolutely no idea how to handle dates without checking Stack Overflow first. It's not impostor syndrome if we're all impostors.

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