Dear JavaScript,

Hey, I enjoyed reading this - thank you for writing it. Thank you for writing open source software too.

Web software is going to be discussed on the web, according to web discussion norms. What norms? Click-bait, of course. Everything is either the best or the worst (optimally presented in listicle form). We must try to not take it personally.

> Surely the author wants a set of problems addressed. But why should the maintainers want to even click on that link, let alone try to address the problems?

Because they read the headline, and now they're pissed! They're off to click the link, and then weigh in on reddit or HN or whatever. Bait taken!

This helps me and reminds me of why I'm doing it: http://zenpencils.com/comic/119-john-green-make-gifts-for-pe... . I hope it helps you too!

James takes too much to heart. There's always some wanker that can do it better in Go and it's faster and concurrent or whatever... Good on you champ. Now fuck off. Or starts dick measuring and says how his Scala code contains three lines less. Yep. You're making your mama proud. Piss off now. Bebel is something I heard of and I haven't moved passed jQuery so he's done something right.

main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106513