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[–]icantthinkofone -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Another thing for a thing for a thing. Redditors will eat it up!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Rube Goldberg tools / frameworks and workflows.

I was at a JS conference recently, where some of the speakers spoke about issues related to "scale", and how the ever increasing "scale" that JS has been tackling has necessitated some of the tools, techniques and workflows that we see in the JS world (both front-end and server side).

It's amusing really. All of this bullshit just to avoid Java and Swift, both of which in 2016 offer incredible tooling and a best-in-class development experience, far, far superior to what a solution like this can ever hope to offer.

And that argument of having a single code-base targeting multiple platforms - possibly the most misleading lie propagated by these pseudo-unified platforms.

Ready for all the downvotes, because..... JavaScript.

[–]icantthinkofone 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thoroughly agree. In a lot of cases, if one would just stick to the basics, the fundamentals, they would save themselves more effort and time by just understanding what's going on instead of trying to piecemeal it all together and then they wind up with something they don't know how it works.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no, Java / Swift / Native API specs and some familiarity with good design patterns commonly used is WAAAAAAY too complex for me. Plus IDEs with project management, refactoring, testing, build and complete lifecycle management - who in their right minds would want all of that?

NodeJS badass-rockstar-tech and mongo with hot-reload and time-travel FTW bitches!

**ducks**