not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoPOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down11
arrow-up1483arrow-down1imagePOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zonenot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoPretty sure that math.random is decades old.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 months agoPretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoRight. I’d agree this is a thing that happens, I just thought you were addressing this one in particular
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoPretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
minus-squareSv443@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoMath.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
minus-squaresparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoRemember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoGotta admit, didn’t think it was that old
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoHow many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoAnd? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.
Pretty sure that math.random is decades old.
Pretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
Right. I’d agree this is a thing that happens, I just thought you were addressing this one in particular
Pretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
Math.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
Remember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.
Gotta admit, didn’t think it was that old
How many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
And? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.