After a year using Node.js, the prodigal son returns

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> JavaScript is terrible. Really, really bad. And because of that, it
>> has the potential to sweep the world.
>
> If your reasoning is correct, it'll never be able to overtake PHP.
>
> I've never written anything over a hundred or two lines in JavaScript,
> but for small stuff it seems OK -- though as others have noted there
> are some oddly missing batteries that result in use of a lot of small
> external libraries for things that any C, PHP, or Python user would
> have expected to be in the standard library.

Except that it's pretty easy to switch out PHP for Python, or anything
else. JavaScript is what it is because it's hard to just use a
different language.

ChrisA