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> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” people I know are building radical JavaScript frameworks. Is he being serious? I

> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” people I know are building radical JavaScript frameworks. Is he being serious? I can't tell if its a joke or not.

ardit33 9y ago
It is sarcasm
- swyx 9y ago
  is it, actually? the broader context is him saying frontend is hard.
  - ardit33 9y ago
    “thought-leader-ish” people --- the author doesn't really respect those people, and thinks JS is not a great language to build anything game changing.
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hliyan 9y ago
This is the man who wrote "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...), one of my all-time favorites. Of course he's joking.
- faitswulff 9y ago
  > And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” people I know are building radical JavaScript frameworks. Tim Bray wrote this, not Steve Yegge.

> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” peo­ple I know are build­ing rad­i­cal JavaScript frame­work­s. Is he being serious? I

> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” peo­ple I know are build­ing rad­i­cal JavaScript frame­work­s. Is he being serious? I

> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” people I know are building radical JavaScript frameworks. Is he being serious? I

> And last time I looked, all the coolest, hippest, “thought-leader-ish” people I know are building radical JavaScript frameworks. Is he being serious? I