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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by tomc1985 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:46PM (#17087383)
This place has a really strong pro-cloud pro-JS bent tho
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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by dawnerd on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:50PM (#17087405)
Pro js?

Seems every thread about something built in javascript is full of people bashing it.

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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by chomp on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:01PM (#17087456)
JavaScript is a pretty popular language. Also HN is a slice of the developer community at large. I think anything that discusses JS is going to look pro-JS to a person that hates it.

I don't think parent will find any high traffic developer discussion forum where people don't discuss JavaScript.

I admit I don't like the language, but there's definitely both camps on this site, seemingly in similar proportions.

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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by tomc1985 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:59PM (#17087447)
We are but tiny voices against the masses
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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by stephengillie on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:45PM (#17088035)
No other language executes in browsers for historic reasons.[0] And there is reduced friction to developing all parts of the stack in a single language. Not all Javascript developers support the current state of the Node ecosystem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521

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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by JustSomeNobody on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:47AM (#17090488)
Of course it is because it serves the startup community and something like 99.999% of startups are web apps and ... well... javascript.
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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by Skunkleton on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:01PM (#17087457)
It beats the pro-meme bent of other sites though.
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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by soperj on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:05PM (#17087476)
Lobste.rs
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Re:Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices by Skunkleton on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:47PM (#17095571)
How is life over there? The idea of an invitation tree certainly sounds nice.
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