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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by haswell on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:51PM (#12437839)
I get that you're making a joke (I think?), but this is hardly useful advice. You may not like Node.js, but it's a pretty useful skill to have given its current popularity.

I'm more interested in knowing why you'd give this advice to beginners (genuinely curious).

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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by mi100hael on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:58PM (#12438848)
It (re)enforces bad programming habits due to its (and JavaScript's) inconsistencies. Its async primitives suck. The tooling is an over-engineered clusterfuck. There are many better options out there for learning-purposes or actual real-world implementations.
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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by Kiro on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:51AM (#12441718)
You really must hate Node. What's the story? Why this crusade?
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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by jasonkostempski on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:30PM (#12438158)
Is it actually popular beyond whoever jumped on the bandwagon a few years ago?
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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by elliotec on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:34PM (#12438677)
This is a really good question and a really good point.

There used to be a list of companies that "use" Node in some capacity, which appears to be removed: https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/wiki/Projects,-A...

The time spent learning and configuring Node seems to have more cons than pros, for most projects, in my own anecdotal experience.

Things like Horizon (http://horizon.io/) are changing this for the better. And are doing a really good job of making Node accessible.

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Re:Learn Node.js: A free interactive course for Node beginners by sotojuan on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:10PM (#12439321)
Might be one of those things that is popular mostly on the coasts. Here in NYC I spent little to no time jobless after I learned Node. Not sure how it is elsewhere.
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