To be fair, as already mentioned in other comments, it's the JS ecosystem. Writing plain vanilla JS in a text editor is still a pleasant experience. (However, this is deemed impossible, nowadays.) Having said that, I do get the comedy.
If this is a reference to the Bene Gesserit test of humanity, then the gom jabbar is not the device that causes the pain. The gom jabbar is the needle with a poison tip held to the neck of the test taker. It’s just a poison weapon. Alia kills the baron with a gom jabbar.
