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So your Dad is moving from a working, type-safe advanced language he understood well to Javascript which he's learning at the same time? That sounds like a mistake tbh.

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I am not sure why you think that- I went from doing low level C++ in algo trading for ~10 years to node.js, and programming was never so much fun! No more fighting with the build system, getting a basic app up and running took less than an hour, no fighting with endless XML config, my change-->deploy cycle was seconds, not minutes the node.js debugger blew my mind- it was as good as Visual Studio... but in the browser?!

I could go on, but moving to node was an absolute pleasure and made me realize the Stockholm Syndrome I had in regards to C++.

As an ex-C++ developer myself I agree the builds are horrible, but go/java/C# are a great middle with type safety and a quick compile time.

You may not be wrong about C# or Go, I haven't used C# in any capacity in probably 15 years now, and have only dabbled lightly in Go, but Java at least I find is still pretty heavy- awhile back I wrote about my experience trying node here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21784272 and I think it sums it up pretty well and is more than I am willing to retype :)

> Java programmers, however, seem to really delight in building architectural monuments and get paid by the abstraction.

Lol true, sounds like a bunch of people in my team.

Not the point!

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