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porcoda ◴[20 Oct 24 22:23 UTC] No.41898983[source]▶

Sometimes it seems that people who write these kinds of pieces forget that not everyone in the world does web or even web-adjacent work, and node.js is something we don’t even consider to be part of our ecosystem. Rewriting useful things in non-JS has the benefit of letting folks like me who avoid JS like the plague use useful tools. Stop assuming everyone wants to get anywhere near the JS ecosystem: I’ve gone 30 years without touching it, and plan to continue that streak. Rewriting stuff is great from my perspective.

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1. worik ◴[20 Oct 24 22:29 UTC] No.41899020[source]▶

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> Stop assuming everyone wants to get anywhere near the JS ecosystem

I have been dragged, through straight misrepresentation, into the Node.js world.

OMG, awful hardly begins to touch it.

I have not used Go, but as far as I can tell every thing the Node.js people do is done better in Go.

I do not recommend Rust. I have a lot of experience with Rust, and unless you actually need the real time responsiveness it will bog you down.

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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages