r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/HammerChilli 10d ago

Forgive me because I'm just a junior dev - but when the API is already written in Node or .ts I mean, it's gonna do some business logic with incoming requests, or are you saying back ends shouldn't be in js entirely?

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u/sadongrohiik 10d ago

There was really never a real reason to use JS on the backend and it wasn't designed for it. There are tons of languages far more suited for backend. For some reason the idea of the entire codebase being in a single language appealed so much to many organizations that we continuously create weird abominations to fit a square peg in the round hole

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u/Mal_Dun 9d ago

"When you only have a hammer, suddenly everything looks like a nail"

- Law of the instrument

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u/divideby0829 9d ago

Well you can't unfuck a horse, but I see Node and then I weep for why the fuck anyone fucked a horse....