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POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Pretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older

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[–] Sv443@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Math.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf

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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 8 months ago

Remember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.

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[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 8 months ago

Gotta admit, didn't think it was that old

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

How many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And? I don't know how to check but I'd guess math.random was included from the beginning.

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