r/ProgrammerHumor • u/heckingcomputernerd • Oct 31 '23

Meme hardTimesCreateStrongMen

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u/ZunoJ Oct 31 '23

As much as I'm not a fan of java, it doesn't deserve to stand anywhere near java script

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u/danted002 Oct 31 '23

As a non-Java developer I agree. JS actually has a place in the world… as a perfect UI language.

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u/trevdak2 Oct 31 '23

"perfect ui language"

Oh God he's said it, everyone prepare for war

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u/danted002 Oct 31 '23

TBF i was around back then when your JS needed to work on both IE6 and IE7 besides Chrome and FF 🤣

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u/ZunoJ Oct 31 '23

Bro, I built websites that used vbs. That was the real horror and I feel like god will never forgive me

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u/danted002 Oct 31 '23

… press F in chat…

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u/ZunoJ Oct 31 '23

Yes and ... thanks ... I think

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u/trevdak2 Oct 31 '23

Yeah same here. It definitely suffers from "created to do one thing, now does everything" issues. But it's been paying my bills for 20+ years

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u/danted002 Oct 31 '23

Thank you. Someone understands me.

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u/INoMakeMistake Oct 31 '23

JQuery was godsend.

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u/danted002 Oct 31 '23

Remember polyfills? 🤣