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Imagine building a business and putting years of labor into a suite of intellectual property which makes you hundreds of thousands of dollars then they guy who

Imagine building a business and putting years of labor into a suite of intellectual property which makes you hundreds of thousands of dollars then they guy who built what your business runs on came out with something new to replace it and said hey now you can import using URLs and by default have access to nothing unless you ask for it. OK? Reminds me of how Rome is doing. You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money. Node.js is already good enough. I think if people end up using Deno it’ll be because of things people need to use that you can’t get or polyfill into Node.js today. But it won’t be because of new behaviors.

TechBro8615 5y ago
Stop building new stuff?
danr4 5y ago
You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money. Another way to say that: You can't build new awesome free stuff because other people already use your old awesome free stuff to make money. Sounds ridiculous. They can and should keep making new stuff, for the next generation of people and apps, whether to use it or not is an individual/organizational choice.
- andrewmcwatters 5y ago
  If I told you I’m giving you an annual $600,000 budget to build a small team and write software, and you chose Deno and had to reinvent JavaScript libraries that already existed for years, I’d fire you for being negligent with funds. What you’re saying sounds ridiculous.
  - DonHopkins 5y ago
    Good thing the MIT AI Lab couldn't fire RMS for being negligent about not continuing to maintain TECO Emacs, which so many people were using every day all over the ARPANET for years, and going on to learn from its mistakes and making Gnu Emacs with LISP implemented in C instead of TECO implemented in PDP-10 assembly. Or are you still using WordStar on CP/M, so you don't care about all that progress stuff?
DonHopkins 5y ago
Did you mean to post this to a discussion about Perl/Raku?

TechBro8615 5y ago

Stop building new stuff?

danr4 5y ago

You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money. Another way to say that: You can't build new awesome free stuff because other people already use your old awesome free stuff to make money. Sounds ridiculous. They can and should keep making new stuff, for the next generation of people and apps, whether to use it or not is an individual/organizational choice.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago
If I told you I’m giving you an annual $600,000 budget to build a small team and write software, and you chose Deno and had to reinvent JavaScript libraries that already existed for years, I’d fire you for being negligent with funds. What you’re saying sounds ridiculous.
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  Good thing the MIT AI Lab couldn't fire RMS for being negligent about not continuing to maintain TECO Emacs, which so many people were using every day all over the ARPANET for years, and going on to learn from its mistakes and making Gnu Emacs with LISP implemented in C instead of TECO implemented in PDP-10 assembly. Or are you still using WordStar on CP/M, so you don't care about all that progress stuff?

DonHopkins 5y ago

Did you mean to post this to a discussion about Perl/Raku?