A fictitious, somewhat farcical conversation between me and the JavaScript programming language
Part 1: Re-introduction
Ernie: Hey, JavaScript.
JavaScript: Oh. It’s you.
E: Yeah. So it’s been a while.
JS: Oh. It has.
E: I’m sorry I’ve been away so long. You know how it goes; it’s just been super busy the past couple of years. Being a low-level manager at all of that.
JS: Whatever. Do you have a question or…?
E: Anyway, I’ve been hitting some roadblocks getting promoted as an Engineering Lead or a Project Manager because everyone wants more experience. So I want to get reacquainted with you. Because… I’m applying for front-end roles again.
JS: (chuckles) Yeah? And how is that going?
E: Yeah, so, uh, it turns out that front-end jobs aren’t what they were like three or four years ago. I can’t even build a static page anymore because apparently that requires JavaScript.
JS: Duh. How did you do it before?
E: Uh, with HTML? And CSS?
JS: Well, that’s pedestrian. You’re telling me you haven’t used any JS frameworks?
E: I mean, I learned backbone a couple of years ago. And Angular.
JS: Angular 1? Or …
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