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To extend the metaphor, Node is a silver bullet. Silver's way more expensive than lead and offers little or no improvement unless you're shooting at werewolves
by rue 15y ago
To extend the metaphor, Node is a silver bullet.
Silver's way more expensive than lead and offers little or no improvement unless you're shooting at werewolves.
- pjscott 15y agoBut when you are shooting at werewolves, silver bullets are definitely the thing to use. A while back, I had an application which needed to do some fairly complicated string manipulation, both on the client side and the server side, and by using Node, I was able to write and debug that code once. There are good use cases here.
- rue 15y agoExactly! I'm frankly not sure how “silver bullet” came to mean a general solution…
- freshhawk 15y agoI always thought that it was because in the metaphor the "werewolf" was "programming is hard". There is no silver bullet to kill the "I have to make trade-offs as this gets more complex!" monster. I could be wrong, I have no reference or even a memory of learning this so I have either forgotten or I just made this up.