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> It's symptomatic of deep unmet emotional needs in that person's life.

Pretty sure pronouncements like that are the real indicator of unmet emotional needs.

The way this community needles dissenting opinions needs to change. If you don't like the HN flavor of things, the resulting swarm of nitpicking, self-righteous commenters blots out the sun.



Is that really what you're seeing on this thread? Whinging about how horrible node.js and how horrible it is that we're all forced by the government to use it, is the conventional wisdom on HN. A few people disagreeing with CW is not "this community needles dissenting opinions".


Eh, scroll through the comments in every submission that mentions JavaScript (like this one) and you'll see a bunch of people lambasting anyone that uses JavaScript.

"Ugh, why would anyone use it on the server? Idiots!"

"Lol web developers only know one language. Sad!"

As if anybody that chooses a different set of trade-offs is incompetent, not just comfortable with a different set of trade-offs.


Maybe they say that because they have used better languages, rather than unmet emotional needs.


Languages that are a minimum of 1 year of maturity behind nodejs for the specific use-cases that nodejs is typically used for.




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