Note the date: 2016, almost 10 years ago. When I started doing actual web development in like 2014, I’d been using C++ for a couple of decades and it was somewhat of a surprise to me that JavaScript was a real language, because of the low reputation it had among C++ programmers. I didn’t even know JS had conceptual origins tied to Scheme, or I’d have been interested earlier. I hadn’t been aware how amazingly good the dev tools in the browser I used had become, with a debugger and profiler just sitting there. This was all before promises and React and Yarn. I discovered the C++ programmers were mostly wrong and JS had evolved far beyond the misconceptions many people had about it. I think today most C++ programmers are much more aware that JS is a decent functional language that is quite fast and is omnipresent in all browsers. To be fair, the NPM ecosystem was a dumpster fire in many ways. OTOH, this comedy article is just a huge list of hot takes, and language hate has been a pastime of many a web comic, but the mockery has done almost nothing to stop people from using languages.