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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by amalantony06 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:42AM (#14178122)
Hey, more power to you if you want to use more expressive/functional languages than Javascript like Erlang or Clojure. However claiming that a language that allows nothing beyond the Object oriented model of computation like Java or Go is more robust or allows you to have less errors would not be accurate (see the comments above).

The primary reason anyone would use Javscript over say Erlang would be the ubiquity of the language and the availability of libraries or strong familiarity with the language. But my point is Javascript provides you the tools to write functional code that is robust (if you are disciplined) and generators + promises (and async/await) makes the single threaded async model painless. I certainly did not claim that it was a silver bullet or a revolutionary model of computation.

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