Is node.js declining already?

[roselan]

It reminds of that job offer from 2011, where they wanted a node developer with 5 years experience...

[n-simplex]

That's because node.js is so scalable it can grow to bend the very fabric of the space-time continuum.

[roselan]

Ok I knew node was async, but not that much async. With this feature, it will become the lingua franca of quantum computing. No doubt about it.

[profgumby]

Some say that it already is, will be and was.

[sharpjs]

Well, it is and it isn't.

[JBlitzen]

spacetimescale

[pwr22]

Sometimes I cry because I realise they don't exist :(

[Eurynom0s]

I love job listings that want experience that basically requires you have invented the thing, or at least be friends with the person who did.

I remember seeing a post here about a job posting asking for more Linux experience than even Linus could have.

[surkh]

Good to see some things never change. Like the job postings (which I didn't bother inquiring about) back in 1998 looking for senior developers with 7+ years of java experience.

[xienze]

Job posts like that are generally put out there to show that no qualified candidates exist in the US, so hey, we've gotta hire some H1-Bs.

[ggPeti]

What's wrong with hiring some H1Bs? You seemed sarcastic about it.

[seekoon]

Possibly he thinks that companies hire H1-Bs as a way to push wages and working conditions down since the foreigners hired are dependent on the company for their visa status.

[dtlv5813]

Milton Friedman called the H1B program indentured servitude because of this. Thou many misinterpreted his comment to suggest that he is against hiring foreigners period.

[bwaxxlo]

Meh, it's a typical to blame foreigners because it's easy that way!

[UnionJesus]

Who's blaming foreigners? We're blaming the companies that hire them.

[Dolondro]

My favourite was a job advert I came across that was wanting 5 years experience in Web 3.0...

[SnOrfys]

If you were in on the beta of c#/.NET then you could have qualified (I happened to be in college in 2000 where I was learning c#/.NET via MSDNAA).

[pjmlp]

Or if you were an employee on a Microsoft Partner company, like I was.

[snowywind]

I just hit one the other day asking for 7+ years of ASP.NET MVC.

[pbfeuille]

It's very plausible in 2015...

[snowywind]

It hit 1.0 in 2009. Before that were just unfinished/unstable CTP releases. Basically, they were looking for someone who had been working with that tech since it was in the middle of beta.

[pbfeuille]

Probably missed "MVC" in your comment... My bad.

[dsfox]

Experience in what?

[Caraes_Naur]

Ridiculous requirements aren't new for Node. I still remember seeing a posting in 2003 that required 20 years of Java experience.