When JavaScript Chooses You Instead of the Other Way Around

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Dark-mode Twitter screenshot under the topic line “Computer programming.” The original tweet by Ravin (@ravinwashere) reads: “Why did you choose JavaScript?” and is time-stamped 8:22 AM · Jun 16, 2020 · Twitter for Android. Beneath it, Kyle Shook (@elyktrix) replies: “I didn’t. It just showed up and won’t leave.” The UI shows small reply, retweet (2), and heart (58) icons in light blue and pink against a nearly black background. The humor plays on the ubiquity of JavaScript in modern development, capturing the feeling that the language embeds itself in every project regardless of a developer’s intent, a relatable frustration within dev communities discussing language adoption

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick JavaScript sneaks in as “just a tracking pixel” and six quarters later it’s the cornerstone of your event-driven microservices platform - while management swears it was your idea

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

JavaScript sneaks in as “just a tracking pixel” and six quarters later it’s the cornerstone of your event-driven microservices platform - while management swears it was your idea
Anonymous

After 20 years in tech, I've learned JavaScript is like that production MongoDB instance from 2011 - nobody chose it, it just happened during a hackathon, and now it's handling 40% of your traffic while everyone's too afraid to migrate away
Anonymous

JavaScript is like that houseguest who arrived for the weekend in 1995, promised they'd leave after helping with some DOM manipulation, and somehow ended up running your backend, mobile apps, desktop applications, IoT devices, and now wants to compile to WebAssembly. You didn't choose the JS life - Brendan Eich chose it for you in 10 days, and now it's everyone's problem. At least it brought npm with 2 million packages, though 1.9 million are left-pad dependencies
Anonymous

No one chooses JavaScript; you choose “runs in a browser” and spend forever paying HOA dues to V8 and a thousand transitive npm dependencies
Anonymous

No one chooses JavaScript; it’s the internet’s transitive dependency
Anonymous

JavaScript: the only language that prototypes your career choices without asking
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I choose C++
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