Yes, vanilla JavaScript does scale

There’s a never-ending myth I see circulating on Twitter every few weeks:
Vanilla JS doesn’t scale.
This is complete nonsense.
What does “scale” even mean? Is the implication is that vanilla JS literally cannot handle the load of large applications the … Read more

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