In Spanish there's a saying that goes "Cada uno habla de la feria según le va en ella". It means that everyone tells
their story, that they say the fair went well or not depending on how it went
for them.
Another comment talks about revisionism and, while I think it is a valid critique, I think it goes beyond that. The author's career starts in 2012 and that's all the reference they seem to use.
Sure, they admit they will "probably going to gloss over a lot" and that they "can’t write about what [they] didn’t experience". But then... is this fair? Or, a better question -since anyone can write whatever they want, of course-, will this be, then, just some person's story or will it actually be representative or a larger reality?
Sadly, it feels like lately a lot of people seem intent in blurring that distinction. They seem to say "I may only have a limited view, but I'm going to present this as if this was the complete reality". And this is what this article does, I'm afraid.
The fact that there's is absolutely no mention at all of Dojo is telling. It's also quite telling that dismissing claim of "throw together some scripts for a few UI widgets, and call it a day", the quite absurd "everything was global", and the error of suggesting XHR came later -"As time went on and XHR was introduced and popularized"-.
Another comment talks about revisionism and, while I think it is a valid critique, I think it goes beyond that. The author's career starts in 2012 and that's all the reference they seem to use.
Sure, they admit they will "probably going to gloss over a lot" and that they "can’t write about what [they] didn’t experience". But then... is this fair? Or, a better question -since anyone can write whatever they want, of course-, will this be, then, just some person's story or will it actually be representative or a larger reality?
Sadly, it feels like lately a lot of people seem intent in blurring that distinction. They seem to say "I may only have a limited view, but I'm going to present this as if this was the complete reality". And this is what this article does, I'm afraid.
The fact that there's is absolutely no mention at all of Dojo is telling. It's also quite telling that dismissing claim of "throw together some scripts for a few UI widgets, and call it a day", the quite absurd "everything was global", and the error of suggesting XHR came later -"As time went on and XHR was introduced and popularized"-.