“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
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Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#2These guys are utterly aggressive even by my standards!
Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#3The main argument is that "of all the ways of doing concurrency, callbacks are by far the worst". I tend to agree.
Now we have async/await, I think there is no problem.
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#4"Only a thought-provoking read is a good read."
Thanks for that :)
Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#5Javascript is the Visual Basic of the 201x's.
Like Visual Basic-- it convinced people who otherwise had no idea what they were doing that they were programmers.
It's fun for the rest of us CS/Math guys to sit back and watch you JS programmers discover things we learned 40 years ago. :-)
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#6What morbid nonsense.
I don't think there's a single language or framework that I haven't heard this about.
None of our tools are perfect, but great software has been written with all of them anyway, and lots of people have enjoyed working with those tools along the way.
If you don't like a tool, switch or build a better one. Don't write long borderline-nihilistic blog posts about how everything is terrible and we're all clueless.
Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#7Javascript is the Visual Basic of the 201x's. Like Visual Basic-- it convinced people who otherwise had no idea what they were doing that they were programmers. It's fun for the rest of us CS/Math guys to sit back and watch you JS programmers discover things we learned 40 years ago. :-)
Maybe one day we'll be as awesome as you
Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#8I've played around with JS a bit. Worked on a little game engine. Knowledge of it comes in handy for playing around with other people's websites.
But it's still evil and I hate it.
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#9Can you say clickbait?
Re: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
#10What morbid nonsense. I don't think there's a single language or framework that I haven't heard this about. None of our tools are perfect, but great software has been written with all of them anyway, and lots of people have enjoyed working with those tools along the way. If you don't like a tool, switch or build a better one. Don't write long borderline-nihilistic blog posts about how everything is terrible and we're…
Why not? Is there something wrong with expressing an opinion about a programming language. You've just expressed a similar opinion about their right to expression.