[ryandvm]

> the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features

JavaScript kind of went through the same thing a few years ago. While everybody else was complaining about Callback Hell, the JS guys were insisting it wasn't a problem. Then they added promises, and later async/await. And lo and behold, what wasn't a problem eventually got fixed.

For a while you would constantly find folks on forums saying, "yeah JavaScript used to be shit, but with ES* it's now perfect." This went on for years.

I think the cultish "we like it this way" is just basic human programming. We do it with items we purchase, political parties we've joined, cities we live in, programming languages, everything.

[alehlopeh]

“The JS guys” is not a thing. I want to say that grouping everyone that uses JS into a single entity is a bad thing, but it’s not even clear whether you’re referring to JS users or the shadowy JS powers that be.