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		freehunter on Jan 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator Every few days there is some self-aware rundown of startup or hacker type stuff that gets pretty wide attention here. I recently saw something maybe last week that was "what it's like to use JavaScript in 2017" that got spread pretty widely. It was a fictional conversation between a modern code hacker and an old school Netscape JavaScript guy and it was definitely not favorable to the state of JavaScript today. You gotta be able to poke fun at yourself.

qwertyuiop924 on Jan 28, 2017 [–]

Oddly, JS is hell now, despite the fact that a lot of the additions to JS have been strictly for the better, and those that aren't are easily ignored.

This is largely due to the JS ecosystem, which pushes shinyness over actual good design.

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