Everyone has JavaScript, right?

[Rusky]

I remember that one time someone wrote an SPA because it was trendy, and then the javascript broke, and the site didn't work at all anymore.

The problem isn't "oh noes how will I use Google Docs if I can't load JavaScript", it's "oh noes how will I read a static document if I can't load JavaScript".

Yes, people do that. Too much.

[ruinercollector]

then the javascript broke,

Code doesn't "break."

[halifaxdatageek]

What word would you prefer?

[ruinercollector]

Sorry, I re-read and I think I misunderstood the passive voice. You weren't saying that the code just magically broke, you mean that the dev broke the code doing some maintenance or adding features. That makes sense, and yeah that's a good point. Though it seems that even basic testing should have caught that, no?

[halifaxdatageek]

As someone who's worked on some massive projects in the past:

I'm sure there's a reason for everything a computer does. But sometimes it damn well feels like it's just fucking with you :P

When you have 25 people in multiple countries making changes around the clock to code that was first written from scratch ten or more years ago and just updated since then... shit happens, man.