To those that agree with the author: it's quite disheartening to beginners (often learning JS as a first language) to hear these things. It's just purposeless g

To those that agree with the author: it's quite disheartening to beginners (often learning JS as a first language) to hear these things. It's just purposeless gatekeeping that borders on anonymous hazing. Who in good conscience can assert: >The entry barrier to programming needs to high! as a blanket statement. It's an absurd assertion that seems to presume all programming does or should take place at the same level of mission-criticality/resource efficiency/engineering elegance. To get a bit meta: I remember ~7 years ago when I was starting my career, these kinds of uncharitable, gatekeepy screeds would mostly just elicit nods of agreement from the HN masses (while making me wonder if I could ever be a "real programmer", severely exacerbating my imposter syndrome). I'm glad the web tech Overton window has shifted somewhat and there is more push-back now.