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Re: Ask HN: Favorite HN comment(s)

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Post by nulagrithom »

acheron wrote: post #56

"JavaScript Delenda Est", by zeveb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, w…

My opinion towards JavaScript is much like Cato's towards Carthage: it must be rooted out, eliminated and destroyed entirely. I don't know if I'd go quite so far as to say that the fundamental challenge of mass computing is the final destruction of JavaScript — but I want to say it, even though it's false.

Beautiful.

I actually really enjoy node.js and the ecosystem + community surrounding JavaScript. There's seriously a lot of passion and work going in to it.

JavaScript itself though? Horrible. I hate it.

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Post by ejcx »

acheron wrote: post #56

"JavaScript Delenda Est", by zeveb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, w…

Js is clearly very popular. What are these fundamental flaws that js has that this comment mentions? I don't understand why it would be the "paragon of wasted opportunity".

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Post by msutherl »

On chef and cucumber: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209760

On Knuth, C, and Haskell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12741430

On npm and In Praise of Idleness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209300

On revenue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11307264

On cranks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931403

On "Great Men": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10166372

On the vastness of space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937353

Advice from a doctor: https://www.are.na/block/324266

A+ dig at pg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7140065

A+ troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7229519

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Post by ptr_void »

acheron wrote: post #56

"JavaScript Delenda Est", by zeveb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, w…

I'm a student trying to learn server side programming, I've started with node js. There seems to be a whole lot of modules to help with anything and with ES6 js doesn't seem so bad, and very fast (to write) as well compared to C++ that I've attempted. What are these better languages, what should one learn now for server-side when starting out?

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Post by signed0 »

ptr_void wrote: post #64
acheron wrote: post #56

"JavaScript Delenda Est", by zeveb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, w…

I'm a student trying to learn server side programming, I've started with node js. There seems to be a whole lot of modules to help with anything and with ES6 js doesn't seem so bad, and very fast (to write) as well compared to C++ that I've attempted. What are these better languages, what should one learn now for server-side when starting out?

Python, in particular flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/

Re: Ask HN: Favorite HN comment(s)

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Post by qu4z-2 »

bastijn wrote: post #22
olalonde wrote: post #6

Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Not only that. But that same thread goes into his idea being the same as Dropbox, both being startup ideas at the time. Seems the latter won that comeback though.

Well, Tarsnap[0] also exists, although granted Dropbox is more popular so I guess won in that sense. I think they have a slightly different target audience anyway.

[0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/

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