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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mvkel ◴[18 Nov 24 19:03 UTC] No.42175730[source]▶
> time to run it after not touching it for 4 years

> Two hours of my life gone...

Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

And it would have run perfectly right away if the node version was specified, so a good learning, too

This feels like making a mountain out of a mole hill

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1. fennecfoxy ◴[20 Nov 24 11:10 UTC] No.42192770[source]▶
Exactly, 2 hours after 4 years is perfectly fine. And all those saying "well my c project did it without a problem!" yeah that's why the entire world is mostly using c for large modern, complex and ever-changing applications; right? Most of the C stuff people are claiming compiles fine after so long have no external dependencies and are really small, simple projects...

This whole thread just reeks of JS hate. I'm not perfectly happy with the language either, but nor am I perfectly happy with any other. If my employer wanted me to use C# or Go or whatever instead I'd be perfectly okay with that as well.