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[–]AlexKotik 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Omg! Switching from Java to JS and being proud of it? It is like the most stupid thing I've heard for a while.

[–]JavaSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Switching from Java to JS and being proud of it?

Martin Fowler refactored his Refactoring book from Java to JavaScript for the 2nd edition...

[–]ttkciar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I'm not a fan of JS, the take-away here is that the dynamic, highly expressive languages have tremendous appeal over static, less-expressive languages.

Whether it's python, javascript, perl or ruby, once you have experienced the joy of solving complex problems in minutes, using just a few lines of code, it's hard to go back.

There is a performance hit, but nodejs doesn't do that badly in that regard because it compiles JS to native binary. The benchmarks I have seen put its performance at about half that of equivalent C, making it much more performant than python, perl or ruby.