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> ‘Deno’ (like ‘Node’ but backwards) Yeah, no. I wonder if more people just assume that to be true, heh. I kind of was expecting it, weirdly enough. Hint: "node" is "edon" backwards. Not sure if that name is taken for something Javascripty ... * goes to check * yeah, I found [1] which seems to be 4 years old, tagline "Run browser JS in the terminal". [1] https://github.com/dbkaplun/edon
It is disappointing to see this message as the basics of what the software is on their site ( https://deno.land/ ): Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust. Only to have that immediately followed by really poor practice of suggesting this as the installation method: curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh This is not strictly relat…
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This means at the level of their ability to draw in candidates, Deno interest is signal to their hiring pipeline of more quality. The consequence is their hiring pool is also that much smaller. One might say the same thing about Java v Go.
> The consequence is their hiring pool is also that much smaller. In the current market, unless you're a big company that gets flooded with applications on a daily basis, why would you ever reduce your hiring pool arbitrarily? If you're a 13-person startup with good funding, you want all the candidates you can possibly get. Excluding potentially great engineers because they've never worked with Deno doesn't make any…
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On one hand, JavaScript being easy makes programming accessible. On the other hand, the state of programming is terrible and getting worse. So you can't say if it's bad or not.
it's not getting worse. you're just getting older
> ‘Deno’ (like ‘Node’ but backwards) Yeah, no. I wonder if more people just assume that to be true, heh. I kind of was expecting it, weirdly enough. Hint: "node" is "edon" backwards. Not sure if that name is taken for something Javascripty ... * goes to check * yeah, I found [1] which seems to be 4 years old, tagline "Run browser JS in the terminal". [1] https://github.com/dbkaplun/edon
Deno is No|de swapped. So no, not backwards. But... how would one call it?
Verlan is itself verlan of l’envers (backwards). It’s super common to make slang words this way.
> ‘Deno’ (like ‘Node’ but backwards) Yeah, no. I wonder if more people just assume that to be true, heh. I kind of was expecting it, weirdly enough. Hint: "node" is "edon" backwards. Not sure if that name is taken for something Javascripty ... * goes to check * yeah, I found [1] which seems to be 4 years old, tagline "Run browser JS in the terminal". [1] https://github.com/dbkaplun/edon
"node".split("").sort.join("")
> Node.js is too easy to get started. This means that the pool of available programmers is not the highest quality. Runtimes like Go or Deno are still havens for the ‘connoisseur’ programmer. wat (Deno seems worth checking out though!)
Same is true about Lisp and was true about Python in early 00s. Rare tech brings out enthusiasts.
Pygame for example was very popular with hobbyist game programmers in the early 2000s as it provided a much easier way to get started with game programming than C, which was the most popular alternative back then (Unity 3d only released in 2005 and Unreal Engine only became free in 2015).
What I do remember from the early 2000s, though, was legions of aspiring game programmers struggling with C and C++.
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This means at the level of their ability to draw in candidates, Deno interest is signal to their hiring pipeline of more quality. The consequence is their hiring pool is also that much smaller. One might say the same thing about Java v Go.
> The consequence is their hiring pool is also that much smaller. In the current market, unless you're a big company that gets flooded with applications on a daily basis, why would you ever reduce your hiring pool arbitrarily? If you're a 13-person startup with good funding, you want all the candidates you can possibly get. Excluding potentially great engineers because they've never worked with Deno doesn't make any…
Deno is still JS based at the end of the day and attempts to conform to web standards in its design. I don't know why in this particular case it would limit your pool.
I could see how Golang vs Deno (JS) would impact your hiring pool dramatically though.
> ‘Deno’ (like ‘Node’ but backwards) Yeah, no. I wonder if more people just assume that to be true, heh. I kind of was expecting it, weirdly enough. Hint: "node" is "edon" backwards. Not sure if that name is taken for something Javascripty ... * goes to check * yeah, I found [1] which seems to be 4 years old, tagline "Run browser JS in the terminal". [1] https://github.com/dbkaplun/edon
Deno is No|de swapped. So no, not backwards. But... how would one call it?