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I imagine lots of backend developers never really thought about what it actually takes to build complex, responsive, performant and visually appealing UIs and h

I imagine lots of backend developers never really thought about what it actually takes to build complex, responsive, performant and visually appealing UIs and how the web platform just so happened to have matured for decades to make all of that as painless as possible. Last time I saw that reaction was someone learning about how SpaceX is using it for their flight controls in the Dragon capsule.

mattlondon 3y ago
> I imagine lots of backend developers never really thought There is a lot of snobbery and arrogance from "pure" backend developers who think JavaScript is some limited toy language. If it is not C++ or Rust or even Go (...assuming they are ok with the GC) then to them it is not worth wasting a milliseconds time on while they go off and fetishise over their copy semantics for their CRUD website backend. Modern JavaScript is highly performant and the DX is second-to-none (unless you are using anything related to NPM). JavaScript and Typescript freed from the NPM nonsense is an absolute joy to work with. I look forward to the inevitable dominance of JavaScript on the backend.
- polishdude20 3y ago
  So... Node?
  - mattlondon 3y ago
    Deno, bun, or something else that hasn't been created yet I would hope. NPM has shat the bed for Node et al IMHO
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