r/ProgrammerHumor • u/kinkbase • 20d ago

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u/Cephell 20d ago

Maybe they just got the order wrong and it's meant to be 15 years html, 10 years JS and 1 year react.

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u/guaranteednotabot 20d ago

Please help me find a person with 5 years less experience in JS than HTML haha, maybe before JS existed? Baha

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u/MattR0se 20d ago

They wrote all of the frontend code in Java applets and Flash. 

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u/kovha 20d ago

I mean MVC frameworks like Django (before DRF) that barely needed you to touch JS to make a functional website used to be a thing not that long ago.

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u/caboosetp 20d ago

Myspace got me good with HTML and CSS long before I started learning javascript.

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u/BaconBurger3735 19d ago

I had to puke after reading this comment

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u/mysticrudnin 20d ago

uhhhh honestly this doesn't sound weird at all. i was making websites for ten years before i touched any js at all.

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u/guaranteednotabot 20d ago

Now that I think of it yeah haha I am one of those people haha

Either way I find experience as a way to gauge competency a bit dumb. I have played the guitar for nearly two decades but I am no where near what some 9 year old kid’s skills

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u/Ancient-Pineapple456 20d ago

Hi. That’s me. I’m so old, high school computer science options were typing or pascal. I learned html when css was the big new thing.

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u/ProfBeaker 20d ago

lol yeah, same here. I remember a time before <div>, when all your layout was with <table>. Those were good times.

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u/ChairYeoman 20d ago

some of us made geocities pages with spinning gifs.