The real joke is how screwed up client side programming is. Here's a library that's an insider/hipster joke but it's only obviously a joke to hipster/insiders.
Javascript is fine. It's the fact that the ecosystem changes every few months and devs post things like "look how ridiculous this old way of doing things is" when the old way was just last year (or 6 months ago) when _it_ was the new hotness.