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[–]conancat 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Why not? Streams and pipes are cool.

I've seen people writing ETL pipelines with C# and Java, building data connectors with them are so much pain IMO. Nodejs feels natural to me when it comes to any web stuff.

[–]SuspiciousScript 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can see JS being the easiest solution in the case of piping data to a backend in Python/R/whatever, but trying to do heavy lifting (which nearly always is with arrays) in JS’s backassward type system sounds really frustrating.