Note that 'Animats didn't comment on JS as a technology, he commented on the crowd. In 2017 Bryan Cantrill gave a wonderful talk titled "Platform as a Reflecti

Note that 'Animats didn't comment on JS as a technology, he commented on the crowd. In 2017 Bryan Cantrill gave a wonderful talk titled "Platform as a Reflection of Values: Joyent, Node.js and Beyond" https://vimeo.com/230142234 https://vimeo.com/230142234 In it, he talks about how even though they liked JS as a technology, they came to realize that the values of the JS/Node.js community differed from their values at Joyent. In the talk (at around 19:30), he identifies that in 2014 Joyent's core values wrt node.js were "debuggability", "robustness", and "stability"; while the core values of the broader node.js community were "approachability", "expressiveness", and "velocity". And there's nothing wrong with either of those sets values, but they're not the same! With that lens, I'd characterize the parent comment as contrasting the PostgreSQL team's core value of "robustness" with the Javascript crowd's core value of "velocity". That's a distinction in values, not in technology.