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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by zaphar on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:16AM (#12343435)
That was not one of his suggestions, unless you count stackless python. It was an example (i.e. twisted in python) in support of his point that callback's are a bad way to structure concurrent programming. His suggestions were Erlang and Go which are arguably better approaches in a purely technical dimension to NodeJS.

What his rant misses is that most technical decisions aren't made on purely technical merit for a host of different reasons.

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by pmelendez on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:11AM (#12344342)
>His suggestions were Erlang and Go which are arguably better approaches in a purely technical dimension to NodeJS.

I would say that it is based on a subset of the technical dimension. Maybe Erlang and Go might have nicer ways to handle concurrency flows but if it doesn't have a library X to communicate with backend component Y then there is a technical reason not to use it.

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