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Explaining Front-End Humor

bob.ts on October 28, 2019

This post was prompted by a rather angry thread that started here for me ... // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('twe...
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George β€’

Bah! First time I saw VanillaJS was when I was learning JS for the first time. Wasn't that confusing. Vanilla is used to mean bland/unmodified across industries (real vanilla taste is delicious and complex though!). It was clearly meant to be a joke, and it is funny. Some people are too serious πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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bob.ts β€’

That's exactly what I was saying ... but, hard to get my point across when I have 40+ years programming and have been using JavaScript almost since it's inception.

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Duy K. Bui β€’

The only "problem" with the site is the misleading of "who uses VanillaJS". It's like "who uses Assembly? -> everyone" even though only a very small percentage of coder directly work with Assembly.

I am indeed curious if anyone community or company, at all, attempts to uses VanillaJS :D But I guess the answer is probably no.

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bob.ts β€’

Actually, I've worked with a few companies that only use Vanilla JS ... they use something like Require JS to put it all together.

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Kasey Speakman β€’

Site is hilarious, but based on sarcasm. Sarcasm is essentially a passive-aggressive remark, which is aggressive toward some target. In this case, the targets are numerous. For example, complicated frameworks/libs or compile-to-js things. Being that some people make and/or like these things, they are going to be aware of the humor but more honed in on the aggression part.

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Jacob Boyd β€’

Yeah that website cracked me up! I haven’t seen it before but it was a great short read πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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bob.ts β€’

Sums up my feelings completely.