Re:Node.js and the new web front-end
by ramblerman on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @08:10AM
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You're kind of quoting him out of context
> I believed, and still do believe, that statically typed languages are exactly what you want in the guts of your business logic.
He wasn't making a case against javascript for his shopping cart but rather against dynamic languages.
Now, you could certainly disagree with that as well, but it opens the discussion to a more correct one vs why you believe javascript is a mature language. Something the author actually agrees with.
> I believed, and still do believe, that statically typed languages are exactly what you want in the guts of your business logic.
He wasn't making a case against javascript for his shopping cart but rather against dynamic languages.
Now, you could certainly disagree with that as well, but it opens the discussion to a more correct one vs why you believe javascript is a mature language. Something the author actually agrees with.