> You know a lot of people are terrified of change and new stuff because it might mean their skillset is obsolete.
That's a lot of what this backlash against JS is. Some of the criticism is warranted, but a lot of it isn't, it comes from people who have never done anything other than sneer at the language, and for every issue JS has, you can find a matching issue in another language that either a) isn't a problem because there are idiomatic solutions or b) everyone in the choir knows it's dumb but they don't say it to outsiders, because why advertise your weaknesses?
I think a lot of the "sneering" is less about fear of "new" things and more about frustration that old ideas that they previously considered are now being presented as "new" by a generation of people who either did not see themselves or did not ask an oldster about the old ways.
The tell for me, is in what things get the most sneered at. Node and npm tend to get a lot of sneering, because they're essentially attempts at solving problems people had already solved before. People don't sneer as much at other things like React (except for its license and large number of dependencies, and the latter is really npm/language sneering).
I think this is a pretty good analysis. NPM, to me, is a pretty consistent string of "you did what and why?" reactions. But once I get away from that, to stuff like React, my attitude changes to "oh, yeah, this is good stuff."
I think a lot of the "sneering" is less about fear of "new" things and more about frustration that old ideas that they previously considered are now being presented as "new" by a generation of people who either did not see themselves or did not ask an oldster about the old ways.
The tell for me, is in what things get the most sneered at. Node and npm tend to get a lot of sneering, because they're essentially attempts at solving problems people had already solved before. People don't sneer as much at other things like React (except for its license and large number of dependencies, and the latter is really npm/language sneering).