>I also disagree that libraries are better. You seem wary of JS, and that’s good, but no libraries are magical and none of them can be trusted to do something f

>I also disagree that libraries are better. You seem wary of JS, and that’s good, but no libraries are magical and none of them can be trusted to do something for you, unless you look under the hood. I wouldn't go that far. You use glibc, right? Have you looked under its hood? If you're writing Java, have you really looked inside Spring or Hibernate? In the .Net world, how many people have really looked at the ASP.Net source code? How many Python developers look at the code for Requests? Even in Javascript, I can't remember the last time I had to crack open jQuery and take a look at its internals.