As someone else who was a kid in the 80s, I promise you that almost no movie that you or I saw in that entire decade was a kids movie.

We must do these things so that the deep lore does not become legend and is, in time, forgotten…

Thank you!

Almost everything the author complains about has nothing to do with JS. The author is complaining about corporate, SaaS, ad-driven web design. It just so happens that web browsers run JavaScript.

In an alternate universe, where web browsers were designed to use Python, all of these same problems would exist.

But no, it’s fun to bag on JS because it has some quirks (as if no other languages do…), so people will use the word in the title of their article as nerd clickbait. Honestly, it gets a little old after a while.

Personally, I think JS and TS are great. JS isn’t perfect, but I’ve written in 5 programming languages professionally, at this point, and I haven’t used one that is.

I write a lot of back end services and web servers in Node.js (and Express) and it’s a great experience.

So… yeah, the modern web kind of sucks. But it’s not really the fault of JS as a language.

I believe the reason a function or method in an object does not need the “function” keyword has to do with the fact that JS is built on the prototype model and the fact that functions are first class in JS.

As the saying goes, “Everything is an object in JavaScript…” (which is not strictly true).

How there is not a reference to TMP-era Scotty, and his sweet ‘stache, I do not understand…

Yeah, there are various episodes that establish that different functions can be transferred to different bridge stations over the course of TNG.

I think when Data is piloting the ship from his old seat in PIC S3, that is what is happening, in universe.

I hate to be THAT guy, but…. That’s not the helm. That is Ops!

The stripe makes them go faster.

If they had RGB lighting, that would improve the turtles’ frames per second. There’s a difference!

I assume you mean fascist propaganda over and above the right wing rabbit holes that already exist on YouTube….

Ugh, this is terrible.

Effectively?

Yeah, that’s what it means.

Is that the episode where O’Brien’s Bajoran subordinate is part of an assassination plot?

That’s a great episode!

I know some people complain about the early seasons of DS9 being not so good, but I love them all. And they are WAY better than the first couple of seasons of TNG.

As someone paid to write code that interacts with D365… I see myself in this meme.

I would have loved to see Hemmer mentoring a young Montgomery Scott…

Oh, you know that’s right.

(I love DS9 so much though…)

It’s false. Different memory addresses, etc.

I write back end JS, when I’m not writing back end C#.

It’s totally fine. In fact, Node makes it a great back end language. I find that the infamous quirks of JS fall into two categories - “common enough that you internalize the rules for them” and “edge cases that almost never come up in practice.”

And when you write back ends in JS… you aren’t on the endless new framework treadmill!

This. Sooooo much this.

You can adjust the draw distance/fog amount in OpenMW, you know…

I initially interpreted it as a joke, but you may be right.

I maintain that Morrowind has the best lore and main quest story Bethesda has ever written.