I had a visceral reaction to that sentence too, but read the rest of the paragraph. It's not wrong in the way the author meant it. The author is saying that Ope

I had a visceral reaction to that sentence too, but read the rest of the paragraph. It's not wrong in the way the author meant it. The author is saying that OpenGL is like JavaScript because it's high level, it's open and supported everywhere, it was designed in the 90s in a very different ecosystem to what we have today, and even though it's been updated and the old versions are no longer worth using (ECMAScript 3 and OpenGL 2.1,) the new versions still have a bunch of weird historical baggage. I don't see anything wrong with that.