I'm gonna go use JavaScript, then.

Instead, they introduced generics, right, which is this huge, massive, category-theoretic type system that they brought in, where you have to under[stand] – to actually use it you have to know the difference between covariant and contravariant return [and argument] types, and you have to understand why every single mathematical... [I tail off in strangled frustration...]

And then what happens on mailing lists is users say: "So I'm trying to do X." And they say: "WELL, for the following category-theoretic reasons ...there's no way to do it." And they go: "Oh! Oh. Then I'm gonna go use JavaScript, then." Right?

posts >>8-9 seem to have been deleted? wth? first time i see
moderators delete posts... kinda makes me wonder about all the
SPAM... wait a minute.... were those plentyoffish.com spamposts?
maybe there is moderation on /prog/?

>>7
perhaps people were referring to some of the nastier aspects of javascript.
http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/javascript-must-die.html

also, nowadays people using javascript on the backend that is just silly... Node.js must burn and be replaced with LISP