> I haven't touched JavaScript since the late 90s, so I dunno what the hell's going on there, Well you're in for a surprise: the entire web is built on JavaScr

> I haven't touched JavaScript since the late 90s, so I dunno what the hell's going on there, Well you're in for a surprise: the entire web is built on JavaScript for one thing. And that is build on frameworks which are built on ... other frameworks, which are built on a ginormous repository typically accessed by npm/yarn. npm modules aren't the same as boost. Boost is written and scrutinized by some of the best C++ minds on the planet. npm modules are written by anyone. they are all open source, but so many are in use that i doubt they get the scrutiny they deserve. at one point there was a package just to left-align things and a bug in it broke thousands of services. but that's the landscape the modern web is built on, for better or for worse.