not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 14 hours agoPOV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1354arrow-down11
arrow-up1353arrow-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 · 14 hours agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 hours agoPretty sure that math.random is decades old.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 hours agoPretty sure many codebases running today (even JS ones) are older
minus-squareSv443@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·46 minutes agoMath.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoHow many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoAnd? I don’t know how to check but I’d guess math.random was included from the beginning.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 hours agoPretty sure OP’s image is hyperbole.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 hours 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
Math.random() was always in the spec: https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf
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.
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