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There is benefits to using better and better tools as they are being invented and evolved. In many aspects C is a primitive tool.
by billfruit 4y ago
There is benefits to using better and better tools as they are being invented and evolved. In many aspects C is a primitive tool.
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoNodeJS project: 441MB, 32872 dependencies, and uptime <5 days due to patching cycles C project Version: 2.5MB, 6 dependencies, and uptime 3+ years (OpenSSL patch ended the streak.) Being busy is not necessarily productive, and "Better" is often use-case dependent. =)
- ilyt 4y agoSo how you wrote same app that have half a gig of dependencies in NodeJS ? I have 10+ year Perl app that never needed fixing but I don't present it as an example of Perl being better than everything. Also JS is a particularly bad language in near-every respect and not even in same category as C so I dunno why you compare them in the first place.
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoPerl was awesome when no other options were available. And one will find many languages inherited its features, as is was great for parsing text. "So how you wrote same app that have half a gig of dependencies in NodeJS ?" Nope, some have greatness cast upon them... great heaping piles of steaming greatness... One likely already knows the greatness of which I speak. ;)
- kevingadd 4y agoWho's proposing replacing C with NodeJS? In the context of a discussion of how using verifiable/safe by design languages is an alternative to C?
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoIt was in jest of a "Novelty bias" assertion. ;)
- wiseowise 4y agoHow long did it take to build both? How fast can you add features to both? How easy it is to find developers for both?
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoI will let you know if the NodeJS underwear stain on my budget ever finishes. ;)