title: Oct 05 2020 - 01:31:31 AM
date: 2020-10-05 01:31:31
slug: 05-013131
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My main problem with #js is not the language itself (ofc it has issues) but the DOM/browser apis/ versioning are what make it unpleasant to use.
Other thing that I don't like is what it's doing to the web and making  new web devs make JS dependent web content.