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Basically JS represents a very narrow slice of what the world of programming is really about. It's just a weird and artificial environment in many ways. Also,
by dreamweapon 12y ago
Basically JS represents a very narrow slice of what the world of programming is really about. It's just a weird and artificial environment in many ways. Also, despite its current success, it's bound to go away, eventually.
- leftnode 12y agoThis is great advice. If you spend your time only reading about the latest startups, you'll think everyone is using Javascript and Node for everything. The vast majority of software is not written in either of these two. And it's not a knock on them, there just a tremendous amount of software out there and most of it pre-dates the Javascript/Node environment.
- rifung 12y agoI would think if you were only reading about the latest start ups, it would sound like everyone were using Rails. At least that's been my experience