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by minitech 3480 days ago
> In 2008 javascript programmers were called "script kiddies"

Yeah, by pretentious people who thought…

> most web programmers who only used to use javascript for displaying alerts and cute dynamic features.

… that. I wouldn’t call someone who only knows how to display an alert a “JavaScript programmer” or base what are considered advanced concepts off of them.

> Also this guy created jQuery, if he says it's advanced, it probably was.

jQuery is a pretty normal library that gained a lot of popularity. It’s not particularly advanced.