Is it just me does anyone else feel that javascript world has gone crazy?

I wasn't around for what Java experienced in the 90s, so I can't comment on that. Here's what I've noticed. Maybe it's the same as what you saw in the 90s:

Obviously only a very small group are doing the brainstorming and engineering and setting the fashions. They're the people who write popular libaries/frameworks, work on nodejs and make the JavaScript toolchain what it is.

The vast majority of the JavaScript world have no idea what they're doing. I say this as someone who works professionally in JavaScript and counts myself among those who have no idea what they're doing.

Frameworks are popping up and going in and out of fashion largely, I think, because ignorant developers like me are completely at the mercy of our tools. Someone with a deep understanding of the languages and systems they're working with isn't. I know people like that. The fields they work in aren't (nearly as) fad driven, because knowledgeable people don't need or care about fads (ok, some do, but not in the same way): they're intellectually independent and capable of making their own choices.

Maybe most of the software development world is like this. Or maybe I'm completely wrong about all of this. I don't know.

But, yeah, I agree: JavaScript is easy to learn and impossible to master, and I think that that's because the JavaScript world is catering to developers who don't expect to achieve mastery.

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