"JavaScript: The Good Parts" as the book you shouldn't read at 12
tlakomy · x · 2026-10-19
Replying to a prompt about the book you definitely shouldn't have been reading at twelve, tlakomy answers with Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts — a dryly funny nod programmers immediately relate to.
The joke plays on the book's reputation for dense, opinionated JavaScript wisdom being well beyond a 12-year-old's bedtime reading.
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