not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 4 months agoPOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-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 · 4 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoPretty sure that math.random is decades old.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoPretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoHow many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
minus-squareSv443@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoMath.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
minus-square[email protected]@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoRemember IE? Yeah. Probably responsible for a lot of now-superfluous things like this theory suggests.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoAnd? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoPretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoRight. I’d agree this is a thing that happens, I just thought you were addressing this one in particular
Pretty sure that math.random is decades old.
Pretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
How many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
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.
And? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.
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