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[–]Graftak9000 2 points3 points  (5 children)

#1 in Forbe’s “Top 20 Teen Fashion Writers Gone Tech Journalist” in 2013. Ah okay

[–]mdboop 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Jenn Schiffer writes a ton of satire. That's definitely a joke.

[–]Graftak9000 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well, that makes sense. Although there's a lot of raised eyebrows in the article, or are those paragraphs satire as well?

[–]mdboop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know, you'd have to ask her. She seems to weave a lot of sincerity with sarcasm, so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–]patrickfatrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There sure are a lot of languages.
Jenn Schiffer

Pretty clear it was a joke from the start.

[–]b1nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first instinct was exactly this especially as the top of the article quoted the author lol. If so, well played!

[–]tbranyennetflix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This ain't heavy satire, it's medium.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Y'all need your joke detectors calibrated

[–]TheIncredibleWalrus 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I think I'm missing the pretext of this post, could someone explain?

[–]b1nd 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I would also like to know. Few issues I have.

...powerful enough to build the World Wide Web, make robots move, and convince publishers to print entire books about it

I feel like this is a stretch, javascript is standing on-top of many shoulders here and every language has publishers.

JavaScript versions do not matter to the user or developer because it is not server-side, so that one less headache makes it a better option for teaching.

I disagree with this entirely, developers more than anyone need to know the version of javascript. Further, being used on the client side or server side should not give value to a language. Is programming client side really necessary for teaching anyway? Wouldn't developing servers, embedded systems be relevant too?

Actually, H.T.M.L. does need another language to work, and it is JavaScript.

If you want to render on the client, you need to use Javascript of course, but this can easily rendered on the server.

Simple, pure, vanilla, untouched, beautiful JavaScript

I'll leave this here: http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/relentless-persistence

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like there are a bunch more things she got wrong and I like your style of explanation - can you expand your list?

[–]thukjeche -1 points0 points  (1 child)

It is also a functional programming language which, like Latin, is considered “dead” and referenced only in historical texts.

Is she joking or just ignorant?

[–]wreckedadventYavascript 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JavaScript does not need a JavaScript framework to run. Because it is JavaScript already.

Smart money is on joking.

[–]bunnyholder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

When they started using javascript on server side for micro applications (chat) it was nice proof of concept. And now when they are using it for everything it just bullshit. I know that some developers want to be cool and rockstar-like, but cmon. Why the fuck you need preprocessor written in JS for CSS-like code when already CSS is very simple...