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Re:State of JavaScript 2019 by gherkinnn on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:41AM (#21832826)
CSS is just key-value pairs. How hard can it be? /s

There is absolutely an air of arrogance when people approach seemingly simple things such as styling. And then they implement all sorts of atrocities.

Re:State of JavaScript 2019 by davnicwil on Thursday December 19, 2019 @04:39AM (#21833375)
Yeah, I think it might be similar to a lot of things actually. Maybe painting is a good example. Like, the techniques of using a brush in different ways can't be that difficult to learn, but putting them to use to create something great is something else entirely.

You can imagine someone learning those brush techniques and becoming quite confident that they could, theoretically, paint a whole painting, without ever trying and learning the difference.

Re:State of JavaScript 2019 by chasd00 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:58AM (#21835396)
You see this arrogance everywhere and it's really annoying. The classic joke about it is the "..first assume a perfectly spherical frictionless horse.." one.

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow