[pavlov]

Javascript libraries are to programming what Marxism was to economics in the 1970s: there's a lot of noise about it and a lot of innovation taking place in the field... But to make any sense of the "progress", you must have spent some serious time getting indoctrinated.

[bobwaycott]

It took 130 years for Marxism to just hit the point of making "noise"? Come on now.

[pavlov]

Javascript is around 20 years old. In Internet years, that's roughly 130.

I was trying to say that JS and good old communism had a similar trajectory. Initial scepticism, outright hatred from the establishment, then an enormous success with some core flaws; after it's mellowed down and reality has settled in, people are trying to fix it in increasingly theoretical ways that may not do anything to address the fundamental issues.