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node.js is the new PHP for hip web developers who read HN. It's still a relatively unheard of platform to most people and mocked by a lot as well. I love it th
by Igglyboo 12y ago
node.js is the new PHP for hip web developers who read HN. It's still a relatively unheard of platform to most people and mocked by a lot as well.
I love it though.
- k__ 12y agoWell, if you are like me, who worked with PHP for years, node.js feels nicer to use. Npm alone makes it better than PHP ever was.
- Igglyboo 12y agoNPM is great, haven't used PHP but it blows Python's pip out of the water IMO.
- tootie 12y agoNPM chokes for me about 1 time out of 10. The main repo has reliability issues. A lot of the libs install executables that require sudo. Java solved dependency management years ago. I don't know why every language doesn't just rely on a classpath.
- woah 12y agoI've never had any issues with npm and I started coding about 2 years ago. In fact I didn't have any issues with npm when I first started. Maybe you need to have a friend show you how to do it correctly. I can't imagine what your issue is.
- LunaSea 12y agoSame here. No issues in more than two years.
- notastartup 12y agoused npm, and started using pip. it was way better because you could use python and not javascript.
- k__ 12y agoI know what you mean. I use it with LiveScript.
- Gigablah 12y agoI recently switched from PHP to node, but for what it's worth, PHP now has Packagist.
- Ronsenshi 12y agoPHP has composer, though.
- billmalarky 12y agoDisagree. It seems half the industry is moving to node in NYC. All the major publishers (NYC tech's bread and butter) are using it or switching to it.
- Igglyboo 12y agoThat's great and all but there are a million and one wordpress blogs or PHP CMS systems that exist outside of bleeding edge startups in NYC and SF. Also try talking about node on proggit, you'll get mocked and told how dumb and shitty it is.
- billmalarky 12y agoMy point though, is I'm not referring to "bleeding edge startups." I'm talking about almost every major publisher here Conde Nast, Hearst, Wenner Media, Gawker, the list goes on and on. These are massive old and new media publishers that are embracing node, not startups in the valley. Node is at a tipping point right now, and talking about how "dumb and shitty" it is won't change that. The technology has shortcomings no doubt, but there's just too many advantages to it from the business strategy side for the shortcomings to matter.