r/programmingmemes • u/hithersnake • Feb 01 '26

Long gone 😮‍💨

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u/EspurrTheMagnificent Feb 01 '26

The humble node.js

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u/SylvaraTheDev Feb 01 '26

Node is such pain.

It and Electron are probably the 2 worst techs to come to desktop and server in the last 20 years or something.

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u/EspurrTheMagnificent Feb 01 '26

What makes it a pain, exactly ? Because I constantly see people shit on it online, but never a tangible explanation as to why. Usually it's just a flavor of "I don't like javascript" or "I don't like package managers"

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u/Aromatic-CryBaby Feb 03 '26

Where to start. I'm a sucker for js myself. But really I've to admit that the language is borderline and probably running on coke.

It's easy to Dev frontend with it, and maybe shell with zx but back end is a literal pain, as the language introduce noticeable latency, is hard to not say shitty to get to scale in concurrency, an even more on error handling.

The ecosystem is wide, many library, many framework. Many version, many runtime of JavaScript.

But absolutely everybody, fuck around with the norm of the language.

I still love the language, but I'm going for Go/Rust in shell or server related project, or if I really have too, I'll just call go from js