I guess he makes fun of a perceived special type of JavaScript developers: Those who were proud of their ultra-dynamic programming environment, laughing at all those poor C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Java folks who have to run everything through a static, rigid, stiff compiler. And now we see them doing exactly the same things there were once laughing at: They run their code through some linter&#x2F;static analyzer to catch bugs early, generating their CSS with a CSS-compiler like Sass, and running their JavaScript though a minifier.<p>Instead of a &quot;change-test&quot; loop now we (as JavaScript developers) have a &quot;change-compile-test&quot; loop, just like anyone else. It&#x27;s just that we call it &quot;build&quot; or &quot;minify&quot; instead of &quot;compile&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s some irony in that, and I believe that&#x27;s what he is mocking about in that dig.