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As much as I love Node.js, I also love this post. It screams the ever-repeated viewpoints of the experienced and tired developer. There isn't enough of this on

• vpb 10y ago
  Almost all pages of cat-v.org read like that. It's a good read. Most should be taken in a light hearted way - it's just software, after all. People unfortunately tend to get outraged by it. Also unfortunately, the original author, Uriel, passed away a few years ago. If you enjoy it, try taking a look at suckless.org Most pages in cat-v (and suckless) tend to favor the Unix way, small connecting components communicating through pipes. It seems sensible to me. It's comprehensible, it's easy to break down and analyze stuff when it's breaks. I never dabbled in Node.js - js is not my favorite language - but it does looks like complex and hard to understand its internals. Maybe it's not.