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Opinionated piece about Google Go and Node.js
- murz 16y agoolder, more active discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518609 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518609
- keyle 16y agoOk. Fine, Go is a great language. But nodejs' popularity is also due to the fact that I don't have to learn yet another language. I already know javascript fairly well and adopting nodejs was a matter of hours, days, not weeks or months. So sure, heavy cpu multi-threaded apps might run better on Go. But I'm not running in that court anyway.
- guelo 16y agoRight, node's popularity has to do with all the javascript guys that have felt left out all these years finally getting their shot at the backend.
- BasDirks 16y agoYou sound angry with all the javascript guys who can now dance on both sides of the stack. What's up with the hate? JS is on the move, and maturing. Hell it even looks ok as coffeescript. Good for everyone right? I'm a Haskell/Python "lover", and a designer (I like beautiful code like I love beautiful typography), and I really like where JS is going right now.
- wakeup 16y agoDude, when do you realize that JavaScript is utterly broken bullshit? Thats like saying I dont want to learn C, I already know Java. Its like saying I dont want to learn how to drive a car, I already know how do drive a BobbyCar.
- cageface 16y agoLearning how to code in an event-driven, callback style seems to me to be at least as much work as learning a new language, at least a language that's as structurally familiar as Go.