Classic dev joke: use a time machine to delete JavaScript in 1995

Developers joke that with a time machine, they would first travel to 1995 to delete JavaScript's source code (and stop by 1980 to delete Python), reviving a classic meme about the love-hate relationship with mainstream languages.

2026-11-04 ~ 2026-11-04 · 2 related posts

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