After just going to the homepage of the flipped bit, it's quite clear, I think, that this is an Onion-style website, so yes, definitely sarcasm. The whole artic

After just going to the homepage of the flipped bit, it's quite clear, I think, that this is an Onion-style website, so yes, definitely sarcasm. The whole article was dripping with it, like the part where they say it "had over eight downloads in its three year life", or that it "totally shocked JS developers, who are known for their sensible, pragmatic approach to including third party code". It made me chuckle.