When developers treat JavaScript like a 'college experiment' in language exploration

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Image is a cropped screenshot of a tweet. In the top-left is a small circular avatar, followed by the display name “Anna Lytical” with a rainbow and two laptop-using emoji, and the handle “@theannalytical” beneath it. The tweet text, in large black Arial font on a white background, reads: “People talk about experimenting with JavaScript the same way people talk about experimenting with their sexuality: 'I tried it once in college'”. Visually it is a standard Twitter layout with white space and black text. Technically the joke riffs on how programmers often dabble in JavaScript during school or early projects and later move on, paralleling the cliché of personal experimentation in college. It plays on language adoption, developer culture, and JavaScript’s reputation as a language many engineers try briefly before settling elsewhere, making it relatable senior-dev humor

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Everyone swears JavaScript was just a “college phase,” yet Terraform insists we’re still running 87 Node lambdas in prod - left-pad and all

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Everyone swears JavaScript was just a “college phase,” yet Terraform insists we’re still running 87 Node lambdas in prod - left-pad and all
Anonymous

Just like that one production system still running jQuery from 2009, some experiments become permanent fixtures whether we admit it or not - and both require therapy to properly process
Anonymous

The real joke is that unlike college experimentation, JavaScript experimentation never really ends - it just evolves into TypeScript, then you're back to vanilla JS with build tools, then framework fatigue sets in, and suddenly you're writing Rust for the frontend while muttering 'I just wanted to add a button click handler' into the void of your webpack config
Anonymous

Enterprise translation of “I tried JavaScript once”: a hackathon POC becomes a micro-frontend in prod with 1,200 transitive npm deps and a recurring left-pad postmortem
Anonymous

JS: the 'college fling' that prototyped your career, then became the untyped spouse in every microservice marriage
Anonymous

Everyone swears they “only experimented with JavaScript,” yet the revenue-critical path is a Node service held together by 1,200 transitive deps and a webpack config nobody dares touch
@asm3r 4y

Experimenting with programming*
1. Red Я. 4y
  
  Pet projects...uff....
@saidov 4y

JS is good. TS is even better. Stop hating
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  no
2. @jhintux 4y
  
  no
3. @in_a_rush 4y
  
  no