Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns

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From	Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns
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On 2016-05-06, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 05/04/2016 02:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> A year ago, Gavin Vickery decided to move away from Python and give
>>> Javascript with Node.js a try. Twelve months later, he has written about his
>>> experiences:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://geekforbrains.com/post/after-a-year-of-nodejs-in-production
>>
>> Very interesting.  Frankly Javascript sounds awful.  Even on the front end.
>
> https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
>
> JavaScript is terrible. Really, really bad. And because of that, it
> has the potential to sweep the world.

If your reasoning is correct, it'll never be able to overtake PHP.

I've never written anything over a hundred or two lines in JavaScript,
but for small stuff it seems OK -- though as others have noted there
are some oddly missing batteries that result in use of a lot of small
external libraries for things that any C, PHP, or Python user would
have expected to be in the standard library.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I'm wearing PAMPERS!!
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Thread

After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 18:59 +1000
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 13:44 +0000
    Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-04 17:44 +0300
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2016-05-04 11:35 -0700
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 20:49 -0600
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 12:53 +1000
    Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-06 20:51 +1200
      Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 19:09 +1000
    Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 11:11 -0700
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 13:45 +0000
  Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 00:04 +1000
    Re: After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2016-05-07 18:54 +0200

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