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by Sophistifunk 2198 days ago
If you read that GP post as a personal attack, you might be identifying with your tools. We all do it sometimes, but it's something we should keep an eye out for because it's IMO the most toxic part of programmer culture, and a big part of what's holding us back.

Almost all of my programming time these days is JS, and I've been doing JS as long as anybody. I know what I'm on about, and I can tell you the JS+NPM ecosystem as a whole is a hot mess. GP is not some crazy person with no idea what they're on about. Well, they might be, but you can't tell from that post :)
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pldr1234 2198 days ago
Please re-read the GP carefully: "The primary reason for this is because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing".

If that isn't a personal attack on a particular group of developers, then I'm not sure what constitutes personal attacks.

Also, as a top-flight engineer working in a multi-billion company (and also having worked with Java and .net professionally for many years), the JS/TS ecosystem as a whole has never been better than it is today.

And TS remains my lang of choice today, for professional and personal projects :)

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