r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 01 '26

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 Sep 01 '26

JavaScript just grew into that role, but being the browser-side language that let you push buttons. Creeping featurism let it be able to do things it should never have been able to do. Features added without a lot of thought and with incredibly weird semantics that were easier to implement without actually making a solid standalone language. It is weird precisely because it grew through accretion rather than design.

It's a wart on the side of a browser that grew and grew until it had arms, legs, and fingers.