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0 pointsEugeneOZ11y ago0 comments

I didn't say it's not popular. I'm just saying Node's popularity is not even near to Java or PHP. But I agree that Node's/io.js hype is much louder nowadays :)

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Touche11y ago· 2 in thread

Does it have to be the most popular runtime to counter the "no one really likes JavaScript, we just use it because we have to" claim? As the grandparent said, no one has to use Node, but people do; a lot of them.

I find this topic to be intellectually insulting. You know that JavaScript has its (tens of thousands of) fans. Why tell yourself otherwise? Is your hatred of it so overwhelming that you're not even ready to admit to yourself that others disagree with you?

EugeneOZOP11y ago

"we have to" was not my phrase and it was about client side, not server side. And it's true. Somebody love JS, somebody not so much - nothing wrong with it. People are different and it's the key of evolution.

Touche11y ago

We're all responding to this statement.

> But JavaScript is a bad language, objectively. There's little debate on that subject.

Which is obviously false, there is lots of debate on the subject. So can we grow up and get past these blanket statements?

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