I wouldn't necessarily pinpoint the Javascript community, but yes, I would agree that there does seem to be an awful lot of really young and frankly inexperienced developers who seem to have ridiculous delusions of grandeur and are completely ignorant of the rich history of brilliant and accomplished people who have explored the problem spaces they are also exploring.
I blame the whole Silicon Valley "10x hacker" mentality. There's a whole lot of young and frankly pretty mediocre developers strutting around thinking that because they (a) live in the valley and (b) built shittytodoapp.io they're at the same level as Knuth.
You are correct that I should not claim that the entire JavaScript community is like that, but that's where I've seen the most prevalent delusions of grandeur problem.
I blame the whole Silicon Valley "10x hacker" mentality. There's a whole lot of young and frankly pretty mediocre developers strutting around thinking that because they (a) live in the valley and (b) built shittytodoapp.io they're at the same level as Knuth.
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