Aside from that, do you have anything meaningful to say about the points actually raised? Let's take your claim as a given. If it were 2003 instead of 2023 and people kept bringing up, say, problems with Windows but refused to speak about them in those terms—instead insisting on framing with a generalization about "computers"—would that have been acceptable on the basis that 90+% of the world is using Windows? It plainly wouldn't have, and that's true for a case where we actually know that we were dealing with numbers of 90% or more, and not just lazy attempts at retorts that are fired from the hip and by a reasonable guess probably won't actually hold up under scrutiny, anyway.
> Aside from that, do you have anything meaningful to say about the points actually raised?
You didn't raise points. You went off on a rant by completely dismissing the tongue-in-cheek article about tooling issues in the frontend space as something about "node-only".
All the points the author raised are:
- about frontend aka client-side
- about javascript ecosystem
And this ecosystem is ubiquitous. Much more ubiquitous than "no, this is not frontend, I do client-side and I don't use it".
> If it were 2003 instead of 2023 and people kept bringing up, say, problems with Windows but refused to speak about them in those terms—instead insisting on framing with a generalization about "computers"
See? This is not a point. This is argument by analogy. You're pretending that this analogy is valid (it isn't) and you're expecting me to argue with you.
I wrote a perfectly lucid response which you ignored completely. Your choosing to ignore it, or to read it as if it means something other than what it does, does not mean that I don't have a point (wat).
> Much more ubiquitous than "no, this is not frontend, I do client-side and I don't use it".
Who are you quoting (and what is it even supposed to mean, besides)?
No, you aren't—and the point at which you are attempting to explain what it is that I really meant or was thinking (explaining me... to me) is the point at which you have stumbled upon a strong indicator that you have lost the plot. Viz:
Where subtree constitutes ~90% or more of the ecosystem.