It's extremely frustrating to me how reliably the anti-JS crowd on HN promotes this sort of "just use HTML / CSS" content. Having a general purpose programming

It's extremely frustrating to me how reliably the anti-JS crowd on HN promotes this sort of "just use HTML / CSS" content. Having a general purpose programming is obviously beneficial for application development. There is no arguments to not use Javascript besides "some users (ie the people here on HN and virtually no one else) don't like to enable Javascript"