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Unfortunately, anything on HN even remotely related to Javascript seems to be scrutinized much more severely than other projects. Oh, your website uses animations? Huge problem. Emojis in the README? Worthless project. I think people come into these threads just looking to air their grievances.

Cosmos looks awesome. Thank you for all your hard work. I've been using Storybook for a while, but I'll give Cosmos a try on my next project.

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I think its because everyone has so much JS fatigue

As someone who is currently learning React coming from a Rails background, the communities and their sensibilities couldn't be more different:

Rails: readability, simplicity, stability, "convention over configuration"

JS: the opposite

Thanks for writing this comment - indeed I feel like if I ever do make something open source, because of HN I would NEVER want anyone to actually use it - it might get posted.

Emojis in READMEs are awesome.

JS is a horrible kludge that malignantly outgrew its original purpose. Incidentally, it's also the programming language sites happen to use to become unusable and abuse the user, but we'd be in the same boat if they used Python or whatever else, so the hate for JS that comes out of that is unfair.

Its far better than it was 10 years ago - JS hate is wielded here by people who haven't used it in years. Unlike C++ the language has changed (definitely for the better). I don't even particularly care much for it but the people who will sit here and lambast it while staunchly writing C++ as if that language isn't in an even worse mess is pretty silly.

I know your take is balanced but others in HN loveeee to hate JS just because they think its what they are supposed to do.

It's interesting that you chose C++ as your counter-example. It's a language that has also massively changed over the last 10 years. C++11 and later standards were a huge shift and most people would argue it's a much better language than 10 years ago.

I don't have a horse in this race though. I don't use Javascript or C++ in any meaningful capacity these days.

If you form your understanding of programming languages from HN comments, Javascript is literally Hitler.

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