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What’s the hippest programming language in 2015?
- jacknews 11y agoWTF is going on in 2015? In my time, fashionably-dressed & programmer == false
- actsasbuffoon 11y agoThis article contains a lot of inaccuracies. To name a few, JS wasn't intended to be a competitor to Java. Java was new and exciting when JS was getting ready to go to market, so Netscape got permission from Sun to use "Java" in the name. It was cooperation, not competition. Second, JS Harmony does have a module/import system, and you can use it in all browsers with Babel. Third, the assertion that code reuse is the only reason to use JS on the backend is unfounded. Node was built from the ground up to be non-blocking. There are non-blocking libraries in most languages, but in JS they are all non blocking. That's a huge win for certain kinds of workload. Those errors and unsupported opinions reported as fact are in the first few paragraphs. Maybe the article gets better, but I don't have the patience to read any more.