not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agoPOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down11
arrow-up1398arrow-down1imagePOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zonenot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-21 day agoPretty sure that math.random is decades old.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 day agoPretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoRight. I’d agree this is a thing that happens, I just thought you were addressing this one in particular
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 day agoPretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
minus-squareSv443@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·23 hours agoMath.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
minus-squaresparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoRemember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 hours agoGotta admit, didn’t think it was that old
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoHow many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoAnd? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.
Pretty sure that math.random is decades old.
Pretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
Right. I’d agree this is a thing that happens, I just thought you were addressing this one in particular
Pretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
Math.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
Remember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.
Gotta admit, didn’t think it was that old
How many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
And? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.