The Utter Failure of the JS Error (and why you should still use JS)

The Sin of Simplicity 3.4 million years ago, apes began to demonstrate the ability to use tools. Impressively, by 1995, those same apes could write dynamic web pages. Back then, the majority of those apes were writing linear scripts with very few potential failure modes. They had yet to encounter the dense forest of AJAX, or the swamplands of the permissions API and its apex predator, getUserMedia . No, at this point in history, they were still enchanted by the dry savanna of client-side form va