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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by curun1r on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:40AM (#17669436)
Having spent more than a decade working and hiring in the Java world, I'm inclined to agree.

Having spent much of the past year writing Rust and interacting with that community, I'm inclined to disagree.

My overall feeling is that it isn't only JavaScript, but it is JavaScript and languages that attract a higher caliber of developer don't suffer from this problem the way that languages that appeal to a wider demographic do.

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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by bshimmin on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:57AM (#17670127)
I feel like JavaScript is a bit of a special case, because there are people out there who, 5-10 years ago, did HTML, CSS, and jQuery, and called themselves "front-end developers", and then along came Node, so they read a few tutorials because it was just JavaScript, and they got some stuff vaguely working and then rebranded themselves as "full-stack developers" - throw in Firebase and Heroku and you have people who can store data and deploy applications to the web with only the most superficial understanding of what they're doing (and yes, that's how you end up spending $30K accidentally on Firebase and thinking that upgrading Angular might fix the problem).
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