Javascript on the back end is kind of like using gorilla glue in your hair.

Change my mind.

It's rock solid, will hold it together well and no-one will ever have the willingness to remove it?

I have to disagree 😉

Coding is that if you fuck it up...

Nodejs pioneered some interesting and useful stuff, but the lack of type safety chokes it

I have hope that deno, with its native typescript support, will be better

Javascript is garbage. It's an unfinished mess, from type safety to behaviour to....

It's astonishing how piling up garbage upon garbage is a great idea.

I love Node. I was already used to using async patterns in web apps front-ends and bringing the power of the promise to the back-end is great.

Node itself is great... I mean... It's just javascript.

Stacking a bunch of shit on top of it and writing entire front ends purely in JS is when that shit jumped the shark tho.

I kinda like JS at times but the thing that tends to kill it for me is that every fucking thing nowadays seems to be made for NodeJS...

I apsolutely like it, regardless of 0 hosting support. My only concern is the 375 dependencies made by random people. The security is a big question mark noone talks about. Ah yes, and the singe thread is scarry as hell, pray that noone from 2000 online users is able to crash it :D Otherwise I like node even if the request is deprecated, Basically used in every single file. XD