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It's fun, simple, fast, and has a good package manager. JS is a high level scripting language like python or ruby but gives significant speed benefits in a lot
by rgbrgb 13y ago
It's fun, simple, fast, and has a good package manager. JS is a high level scripting language like python or ruby but gives significant speed benefits in a lot of cases (in particular, the startup time of CLI programs written in Ruby always bothers me).
If you want to write in C for performance reasons, go ahead. But if your other alternatives are Python or Ruby and you already know JS, give node a go -- it's pretty fun.
- retr0h 13y agoThis is what happens when you let front-end developers loose in your infrastructure.
- gcr 13y agoDon't knock it 'till you try it. Most developers would balk at the idea of creating a project in something that isn't their favorite language, especially when they've been burned by poor uses of that language before.
- retr0h 13y agoI have written plenty of JS, and absolutely hate it.
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- axaxs 13y agoWell, there's my daily laugh :)
- akbar501 13y ago2 plus years ago there may have been merit to your implicit assumption that JavaScript is limited to front-end developers. However, today there is more diversity in the JavaScript developer community. For example, Yehuda Katz is both a server-side (Rails) team member and client-side (JQuery, Ember) developer. Also, system engineers have begun working in JS. The Meteor team is a good example of system engineers working on JS.