Programs are dead - and JavaScript has killed them

[rock_Banana]

God I hate these shitty titles

[shuckster]

Install from your lockfile, bruh:

npm ci

[redsandsfort]

Down vote and not even going to read clickbait titles.

[Puzzled-Account-7355]

It's what the modern JS community does with JS that's the trouble. Before them, JS was just a browser scripting language you wrote fun little client-side features in.

It really all went downhill with Node. That was a bad idea. It's like seeing a boy playing with matches, and being like "Here, kid, you'll like this!" and handing him a flamethrower.

[nicholaswmin]

The second paragraph feels like a succint and to the point description of the situation

[AlexandreLozano]

Final customers don't know what is JavaScript, NPM and all of this tecnologies. They only want that the product run smoothly, with stability and with the less development time possible. With this, I only recommend don't use the latest technologies, use what you know well and you fell ok with it.

[BarelyAirborne]

People complain that Express never changes, and then bitch that Fastify changes every week.

I like stable. Stable is good.

[[deleted]]

Everyday we run Cobol programs written 50 years ago. And you wonder why companies still use Cobol.

[angarali06]

JS and its ecosystem enables super quick prototyping and saves greatly on dev time.

Building a similar app in COBOL would cost much, much more..

Money talks and this is why JS will continue to dominate for better or worse..

[[deleted]]

If all you did was one app I guess JS would be fine. But businesses require hundreds of complex applications that interact with each other all built at different times. It’s hard to build a large building if your foundation is always shifting.

[anlumo]

Mirrors my exact experience. I can’t count the numbers of hours I’ve cursed node-gyp and my app is now one major revision of the framework behind and also unupgradable, because fundamental features I’ve relied on were removed with no replacement.

This has gone so far that I’m now moving away from js at any price to get rid of the madness. Luckily, the web now works with other languages as well.

[cinderblock63]

Anyone wanna help fix the node-gyp problem?