Posted by yakkomajuri 11/3/2025
It took our team 5 man-years (1 year of time) to upgrade from Laravel 4 to 5...
Took me a weekend to create a basic trading algo tester in Go that leveraged all computer cores.
And I was new to Go and Llama didn't exist back then.
These days it would have probably taken me a Sunday morning to do the same
It's about getting it done.
lol sounds more like a bunch of front end developers who don’t know what they are doing wanted to use a language they use on the front end on the backend.
I always wanted an emacs with python as the underlying language. Is emacs brilliant choosing lisp or outdated?
Node.js is such an incredible mess. The ideas are usually ok but the implementation details, the insane dependencies (first time I tried to run a Node.js based project I thought there was something seriously wrong with my machine and that I'd been hacked), the lack of stability, the endless supply chain attacks, maintainers headaches and so on, there is very little to like about Node.js.
C# before Node.js and I can't stand C#. Java Before C#. Yes, it's a language rant, but in the case of Node I am really sorry.
In fact, JavaScript has borrowed a lot from C# including async/await, lambda expressions, and the syntax for disposables -- all influenced by and done first in C#.
Of course, TypeScript and C# are from the same designer at Microsoft so there are even more similarities. Any team that's considering moving to TypeScript should also really give C# a look.
[0] https://typescript-is-like-csharp.chrlschn.dev/pages/intro-a...
> As you get more familiar with computers you will understand more and more what's going on.
Pot, meet kettle.
And yes, Rust's package management was inspired by Node, and it is one of the major drawbacks of Rust.
theres effectts if you need app level control
theres caolan async if you need series and parallel controls
theres rxjs if you need observables
on web frameworks hono seems nice too. if you need performance, theres uwebsockets.js which beats all other web frameworks in http and websocket benchmarks.
for typesafety aside from typescript, theres ark, zod, valibot, etc.