You might dislike it but it's become common usage in the js community so by any reasonable non-prescriptive definition of 'means' it 'means' what this author says.
Right! One of my favorite instructors (a computational linguist) in one of my favorite classes (linguistics) always used to say "We as linguists do not prescribe language, we describe language".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description
You might dislike it but it's become common usage in the js community so by any reasonable non-prescriptive definition of 'means' it 'means' what this author says.