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Hard agree. As a community we need to stand up for our freedoms and stop using Node for any kind of application, since it's always inappropriate. I'll take you
by spoils19 4y ago
Hard agree. As a community we need to stand up for our freedoms and stop using Node for any kind of application, since it's always inappropriate. I'll take you one step further and say that every instance of JavaScript usage is also unnecessary, even for an 'interactive' frontend (spoiler: most people don't care about interactiveness, just look at comments on this site).
As a fun story, I was working in Node with a senior developer with 4 years of experience who wanted to use a library for a trie, instead of simply building one. Can you believe it? I fully implemented one in a half day to show my colleague how unnecessary it was, and we actually found a few issues with the library that my one didn't have.
- nindalf 4y ago> just look at comments on this site Took advantage of HN's JS based interactivity to downvote your comment. I might not have if the interaction had required a page reload. See? JS solving a real world problem.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Can you believe it? That's nothing. Somebody tried to get me to use git for source control, but I showed him by taking six months off to write my own source control system.