585
It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's... (reddthat.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
134 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
Squidward Tentacles meme format. Top panel shows Squidward looking happy while setting up a beach chair, with the text 'WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT I USE AND APPRECIATE'. Bottom panel shows Squidward looking sad and disappointed, folding up the chair and going back inside a building, with the text 'WRITTEN IN JS'.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 60 points 11 months ago (2 children)

JS has saved me many hours of mind-numbing, error-prone manual keyboard work by giving me a way to hack together a simple bit of automation as a web page.

Even when a computer has been ham-fistedly locked-down by an overzealous IT department, I can almost always still access a text editor and a browser that will load local HTML files.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago

    Add to that the beauty of bookmarklets.

    It's silly that IT departments forces us to resort to techniques used before browser extensions became a thing, and it's ironic that it's because they don't know how to code, but here we are.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent