Front end is basically anarchy, anyway. Give me my Django back end development and leave me alone.

It’s a major supporter of Big Shortcut

What the fuck did I just read? The headline even is completely unintelligible.

I’d love to disagree, but it seems like any job opening right now goes to the engineer who all but lives to code.

That makes sense. Every time I try to learn it, or am asked to do something in it only to reply “I can’t”, I feel so fucking stupid. How am I supposed to move up to senior SWE if I can’t do JS?

It just feels like anarchy to me. Why is anything the way it is in JS? Maybe I’m learning it wrong, but starting from zero, I now feel like I understand less than nothing.

Sure, but they use ersatz methods that are so incredibly obscure and removed from the standard library that expecting one to know them is beyond foolhardy.

You want to hate programming? Try using JS. It’s anarchy.

“Why is this the way to do things?”

“Because it just is.”