We probably were not living on the same planet, then, you and me. :) From what I saw, in the 2000’, there were no “backend developers” either. We were all webdevelopers, then younger people started to call us “fullstack developers” when they specialized. But the hate against javascript is way older than that. Already in the early 2000s, it was considered a malware language. It’s only when prototype.js and scriptaculous introduced web animations that people started to consider it seriously. Even then, jQuery’s main sale point was that it allowed to do the least possible amount of js. Anyway, it doesn’t matter when and why you started hating, hate is always wrong, period.

Wow, people are still showing disdain for javascript? I thought we were done with that since “frontend development” became a thing.

When that becomes a well-known bug, it’s past time to try an alternative.

Omg, thanks for this. 😂 I could really have used it in those teams where backend devs thought that they didn’t have to try and use their feature in the browser : if the test suite pass, then it’s good. I hope I’ll never be in such a team again, but I keep this pic just in case. :)

Made me laugh, but I can’t help but think that’s exactly what so many abstractions in OOP languages are doing. NullObject, anyone?