Node Is Done. Done Is Node.

By coincidence, I was going thru my bookmarks this Sat morn and found a link to Ev Bogue. I couldn't remember who he was, so I googled him and found he is person who makes his living writing provocative things and someone doesn't like that:

http://charliebroadway.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-everett-bogue...

equalarrow• 13 years ago

All you have to do is read his bio on his web page. It's the ultimate downer list. Of course (for him) Node is done - his life sounds like it's done. What a shame. Good thing we don't have a planet of people filled like him - hating on pretty much everything. If we did, we'd obviously never progress or any progression would come out of some negative act.

Maybe he'll get over it in a few years? In the mean time, those of us who have things to do, because we actually appreciate life, will keep inventing, thinking, striving, working towards the next great thing we love.

Gwen_Bell• 13 years ago

You can't dispute a single FACT in the article, so you attack the AUTHOR instead! Obviously you've never even tried to create a web site with Node.js. If you did, you'd know it is DONE. Ev's technical skills are light years beyond any of you so-called programmers. Maybe in a few years, you'll realize he was right all along?

bichiliad• 13 years ago

First of all, calm down a bit. Secondly, there aren't many facts in the article. It seems highly opinionated.

autonomy77• 13 years ago

Firstly, to come out with a statement like "Ev's technical skills are light years beyond any of you so-called programmers" shows that you have no idea who the audience is for HN. Your comment is both incorrect and comically pretentious.

Secondly - are you the same Gwen Bell who "co-created" Bitters? If so, can you enlighten us on how it differs from the Express demo app? Please give details.

bnb• 13 years ago

Jesus, what is his problem? It seems someone or something upset him, and he ran off and wrote the "worst" possible thing he could about Node, GitHub, and Mac users.

There's good diversity in languages in our field. Get over it. There's a good reason GitHub has done so well. Get over it. There's a good reason why Macs are the most popular amongst designers. Get over it.

gte910h• 13 years ago

Sounds like the guy has had a bad day.

Flagging the flame containing little discussion and lots of random evaluation without backup

davehimself• 13 years ago

I'm not dead yet... http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/

rian• 13 years ago

I'm not totally sure what the intention of this article is.

Is it to deter people away from using node as an application platform? Is it to deter people away from web programming in general? Is it to deter people away from using Macs?

In each case no hard evidence is given. Just a lot of baseless opinions.

I don't think this article is appropriate for HN. I didn't learn anything useful from this. If it was meant to be an opinion piece to influence how programmers think, it wasn't done very tastefully. What this article does best is reflect the immaturity of its author.

As far as the node project being over, I don't think that's true. There are surely IO scheduler optimizations that could be made ala http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03.... The speed of JS code could always be improved. The HTTP standard is currently evolving and those changes will need to be made. There are probably other examples I'm failing to list.

void0• 13 years ago

This is why I hate Hacker News.

justinzollars3• 13 years ago

its a love hate cycle on this site.

pauljonas• 13 years ago

Wut?

Node Is Done. Done Is Node.

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