Renouncing the JavaScript

I was a regular P.R.O.G. reader in 2009–2010. At that time JavaScript was a joke consigned to troll posts by morons like Frozen2BUo.

In 2012 I returned and found JavaScript being taken seriously. What has happened, /prog/? Have you all lost your minds?

1. v8 has made js the fastest dynamic language. within 3x of C
2. browsers are adding typed arrays, canvas/svg, webworkers, and webworkers allowing for some really cool stuff to be made.
3. after 20 years, python still doesnt have a decent networking library. It's easier to write a webserver in C. joyent notices that 99% of software is moving to servers, decides to write a system that embraces this model of tiny services that talk to each other, rather than monolithic frameworks. system cleanly exposes unix API. No object oriented gobbledygook like in twisted, and no monkey patching like in gevent. Huge benefit is that you can now move functionality from client to server. Sharing even 10% of your codebase makes it hugely more productive than any other language. If you want to render on the client for half your users using fast PCs, and on the server for people on windows xp/phones, you don't have to maintain two separate codebases and keep them consistent.

I was always a backend algorithms+systems guy but I have to admit I'm excited about javascript. feel free to call me a hipster or a n00b or whatever.