> It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand"
I'm sure that it was a joke, and that doesn't make it better. I'm not suggesting that this code was hard to understand, and I enjoyed the article. I'm calling out this particular point, and suggesting that even as a joke, mocking "frontend developers" is very much from the same territory that promotes "Real Programming" and mocks people for their choice of programming language or technology.
I'm sure that it was a joke, and that doesn't make it better. I'm not suggesting that this code was hard to understand, and I enjoyed the article. I'm calling out this particular point, and suggesting that even as a joke, mocking "frontend developers" is very much from the same territory that promotes "Real Programming" and mocks people for their choice of programming language or technology.