Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
by erikpukinskis on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:48PM
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Your view is that the Node community finally "saw the light", but the other interpretation is that they buckled under pressure.
I love callbacks. The best thing about them is that you always know precisely what will happen when a line of code runs. Not so with promises.
Another nice thing is that you always know which line of code will run next. Not so with async.
I see async in the language spec (and class too) as a concession made to people who couldn't be bothered to learn how to use JavaScript the way it was intended. Like burgers on the menu at a Mexican restaurant.
And no judgement against them: I'm happy for them that they got the ruby-like JavaScript they always dreamed of.
But I wish those people would be a tad less boastful and understand that they turned people like me into exiles in our own language community. I used to have a language that promoted small single purpose modules with functional interfaces. That's gone. It's mostly synchronish OO interfaces now. And bigger and bigger frameworks. My folk are going to have to basically move out. I don't see an alternative at this point but to fork NPM.
I love callbacks. The best thing about them is that you always know precisely what will happen when a line of code runs. Not so with promises.
Another nice thing is that you always know which line of code will run next. Not so with async.
I see async in the language spec (and class too) as a concession made to people who couldn't be bothered to learn how to use JavaScript the way it was intended. Like burgers on the menu at a Mexican restaurant.
And no judgement against them: I'm happy for them that they got the ruby-like JavaScript they always dreamed of.
But I wish those people would be a tad less boastful and understand that they turned people like me into exiles in our own language community. I used to have a language that promoted small single purpose modules with functional interfaces. That's gone. It's mostly synchronish OO interfaces now. And bigger and bigger frameworks. My folk are going to have to basically move out. I don't see an alternative at this point but to fork NPM.