This tweet is a response to two tweets by Tom Dale (of Ember.js fame):

https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/362949932740657153

https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/362950137397522432

Those of us building real apps in javascript are using angular, which certainly does have dependency injection.

(DI doesn't and never has meant reams of XML, JNDI and consultants. It's just a pattern for how you write your applications, and you can implement it just fine with ordinary code. That's always been true)