>The vast majority of web devs with less than 5 years of experience simply don't understand plain javascript well enough they are never tested on it, and many

>The vast majority of web devs with less than 5 years of experience simply don't understand plain javascript well enough they are never tested on it, and many won't dig that deep in the day-to-day. Whose fault is it that they don't know plain javascript well enough? That's the result of shipping "content" over any other metric of proper software engineering. Funnily enough I did take a mini-course (not a week, but we're talking maybe 100 hours of work as a recreational online summer class) in plain javascript at my university. Quite the quirky language. But this was in ES3 or so, so maybe there's many more guard rails these days against the core jank that makes up JS