I am with you that I'm tired to see people pushing NodeJS. But I suppose am even more tired to see people working on some simple web app using NodeJS and pretend that it's Gold. I prefer to see people get better in fundamental concepts as oppose to keep hack-job and move on to the next thing.
I'm tired to meet with people in my day job that keep pushing for the latest tech.
"For the next project we must use JavaScript and NodeJS" or the "I can cut most of the LoC if we were to use JS". Only to hear that "Yeah, I'm not too sure, I just have a gut feeling that we could do with less LoC" after I drilled them as to "why it'll be less LoC? How can we solve X component with JS and its current libraries? How can we test Y automatically and efficiently?"
I'm tired to interview people that put in their resume "I know NodeJS" but flunk fundamental computer science aptitude.
I'm tired to hear "you know, if we re-wrote this bits with Rails, it'll be _MUCH_ better".
For these people, their Java skill is "decent". Their Ruby skill is "decent". Their JS skill is "hey I just read JS The Good Parts and this is how Crockford sez we should write JS" yet still missing the structure, the discipline, the "write for readability not for meta-programming"
Too many Learn-Yourself-24-Hours Ruby programmers out there. Too many Learn-Yourself-24-hours-me-too JavaScript programmers out there.
Ok, enough rant for Saturday morning :) Good day everybody.
