> So you prefer one written in ... C? Because C is secure by design? <rim shot> > Coding a terminal in Rust or even Go would be awesome, I admit... So, if Java

> So you prefer one written in ... C? Because C is secure by design? <rim shot> > Coding a terminal in Rust or even Go would be awesome, I admit... So, if Javascript hate is "so 2010," is C hate all the fashion now? If you're going to get on somebody's case for trashing a programming language than you might as well practice what you preach. C certainly isn't secure by design, but there are plenty of demonstrably secure projects developed in C and C++ (and it's not like Node is self-bootstrapped, either). To answer your question, yes, I would prefer one written in C. Any day of the week. > Point is to use them to do other cool things client-side. It's a Really Big Toolbox. The CSS/HTML part can potentially provide interesting options as well. Dragging along such a massive runtime environment is such a heavy cost for that, though. And, again...in a terminal? I'm not judging every since Electron app, right now, I'm just judging HyperTerm. > The latter quote is from the comment I was replying to. It is not a "salient point," but simple JavaScript hate. His other points were that, in the past, he had written a JavaScript terminal as a school project that he ended up hating, it took him thousands of lines of code, and he'd done it before Node existed to provide the batteries. What salient points do you actually refer to? Honestly? Parent didn't make any. I'm just tired of people defending programming languages like they're more than just tools. It's fine to hate tools. Obviously this person's JS hate is coming from an informed place, because they've written a fair chunk of it.