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The real reason is quite simple. And I'm not trying to be bitter or anything, rather think like a businessman. The reason is... it's full of JavaScript kids ou
by mantrax5 12y ago
The real reason is quite simple. And I'm not trying to be bitter or anything, rather think like a businessman.
The reason is... it's full of JavaScript kids out there, and because they're so many, they're all replaceable, and cheap. Like the commodity hardware servers they're programming.
It's neat to cast this as "easy to attract and retain talent", but "rapid innovation" and "developer happiness" (especially considering the lack of strict typing, lack of basic primitives, single threaded-ness and callback hell of Node.JS) are just B.S. reasons of the kind a Node.JS consulting company would add so it doesn't all look so cynical.
- colechristensen 12y agoJavaScript is the new Java... sigh.
- emanuelsaringan 12y agoWell you are right in a sense that JS is becoming the new de facto WORA (Write Once Run Anywhere) platform that Java was. i.e. Mobile: Android v. Sencha Embedded: Java ME v. Raspberry pi Desktop: Swing v. node-webkit Web: JavaEE v. Express I believe Java went through this phase as well in the 90s wherein developers from other languages got excited about its future and started jumping away from COBOL, etc.
- politician 12y agoThe ethnicity of the workers who pick the fruit is of lesser concern than the wages they agree to work for.
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