▲ 748 ▼ DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (www.wired.com) submitted 2 years ago by oakey66@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 192 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago (5 children) "…but sir, we only know Node.js…" permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] futatorius@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca -8 points 2 years ago (3 children) Node.js is a fantastic tool for web servers. Its event loop allows it to rival much lower-level languages in performance while remaining easy to write and maintain. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for nearly a decade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] green@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just no man. Yes, JavaScript has been the most popular language but it is exclusively because of the front-end. Many companies do not want to pay for separate back-end devs and ask their front-end devs to do it instead. These people (ab)use JS because they're most comfortable with it and are under crunch; so we end up with the abomination that is back-end JS. It is NOT rivaling much lower-level languages; it can't even rival C#. First off, it is interpreted. You are never going to be faster than competently written C, C++, Go, nor Rust. Secondly, the resources it takes to exist makes in a non-option for embedded machines - which Social-Security facilities are all but guaranteed to use. Not to mention the horrendous (and insecure) package infrastructure, and under-powered core libraries - it would be the fullest extent disaster. The saddest part? The larpers at DOG(shit)E are all but guaranteed to pick the worst tools for the job, over-engineer, and have extremely poor management. Meaning whatever they ship WILL collaspe the system day 1; and all of the people refusing to pay attention will be like "hOw CouLd THis HaPPen" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it's good as a web server. A Honda Civic is a great car for what it's built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn't use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500. permalink fedilink source parent [–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] futatorius@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca -8 points 2 years ago (3 children) Node.js is a fantastic tool for web servers. Its event loop allows it to rival much lower-level languages in performance while remaining easy to write and maintain. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for nearly a decade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] green@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just no man. Yes, JavaScript has been the most popular language but it is exclusively because of the front-end. Many companies do not want to pay for separate back-end devs and ask their front-end devs to do it instead. These people (ab)use JS because they're most comfortable with it and are under crunch; so we end up with the abomination that is back-end JS. It is NOT rivaling much lower-level languages; it can't even rival C#. First off, it is interpreted. You are never going to be faster than competently written C, C++, Go, nor Rust. Secondly, the resources it takes to exist makes in a non-option for embedded machines - which Social-Security facilities are all but guaranteed to use. Not to mention the horrendous (and insecure) package infrastructure, and under-powered core libraries - it would be the fullest extent disaster. The saddest part? The larpers at DOG(shit)E are all but guaranteed to pick the worst tools for the job, over-engineer, and have extremely poor management. Meaning whatever they ship WILL collaspe the system day 1; and all of the people refusing to pay attention will be like "hOw CouLd THis HaPPen" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it's good as a web server. A Honda Civic is a great car for what it's built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn't use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500. permalink fedilink source parent [–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca -8 points 2 years ago (3 children) Node.js is a fantastic tool for web servers. Its event loop allows it to rival much lower-level languages in performance while remaining easy to write and maintain. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for nearly a decade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] green@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just no man. Yes, JavaScript has been the most popular language but it is exclusively because of the front-end. Many companies do not want to pay for separate back-end devs and ask their front-end devs to do it instead. These people (ab)use JS because they're most comfortable with it and are under crunch; so we end up with the abomination that is back-end JS. It is NOT rivaling much lower-level languages; it can't even rival C#. First off, it is interpreted. You are never going to be faster than competently written C, C++, Go, nor Rust. Secondly, the resources it takes to exist makes in a non-option for embedded machines - which Social-Security facilities are all but guaranteed to use. Not to mention the horrendous (and insecure) package infrastructure, and under-powered core libraries - it would be the fullest extent disaster. The saddest part? The larpers at DOG(shit)E are all but guaranteed to pick the worst tools for the job, over-engineer, and have extremely poor management. Meaning whatever they ship WILL collaspe the system day 1; and all of the people refusing to pay attention will be like "hOw CouLd THis HaPPen" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it's good as a web server. A Honda Civic is a great car for what it's built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn't use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500. permalink fedilink source parent [–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] green@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Just no man. Yes, JavaScript has been the most popular language but it is exclusively because of the front-end. Many companies do not want to pay for separate back-end devs and ask their front-end devs to do it instead. These people (ab)use JS because they're most comfortable with it and are under crunch; so we end up with the abomination that is back-end JS. It is NOT rivaling much lower-level languages; it can't even rival C#. First off, it is interpreted. You are never going to be faster than competently written C, C++, Go, nor Rust. Secondly, the resources it takes to exist makes in a non-option for embedded machines - which Social-Security facilities are all but guaranteed to use. Not to mention the horrendous (and insecure) package infrastructure, and under-powered core libraries - it would be the fullest extent disaster. The saddest part? The larpers at DOG(shit)E are all but guaranteed to pick the worst tools for the job, over-engineer, and have extremely poor management. Meaning whatever they ship WILL collaspe the system day 1; and all of the people refusing to pay attention will be like "hOw CouLd THis HaPPen" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it's good as a web server. A Honda Civic is a great car for what it's built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn't use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it's good as a web server. A Honda Civic is a great car for what it's built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn't use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that. permalink fedilink source parent