These are more like lies developers tell themselves out loud, but I have heard them frequently enough they may as well be cliches: * You can’t write JavaScript

These are more like lies developers tell themselves out loud, but I have heard them frequently enough they may as well be cliches: * You can’t write JavaScript without jQuery (this one is dying). * You can’t write JavaScript without a framework. Doing so will just create a new framework. * You can’t write applications or get hired without writing classes/inheritance. * Security certifications are worthless for security hiring. * JavaScript is slow. * The DOM is slow. * Virtual DOM is a web standard, not some unnecessary thing created for the React framework. * Accessing the DOM without querySelectors is like writing assembly. * Complaining about querySelector speed is premature optimization. * I don’t need to performance test because my application is fast. * WASM will replace JavaScript... any minute now. * WASM will gain full DOM access to the containing page.