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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by elmigranto on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @12:13PM (#12344875)
> people who have to come along years later and maintain

The problem is there is no way to know years in advance what makes sense for those future people. All you have is current standard at your org and/or common sense. Do what they say.

When you choose what the standard is, select whichever makes more sense at the moment. That is kind of my original point.

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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 @01:33PM (#12345586)
You may not know their own personal preference when writing code. But you can know what will make their job easier. Strong typing for instance will make refactoring easier. Good perf tooling will make analyzing performance easier and so on.
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