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> As someone who thrives on tracking down rare but annoying bugs in a debugger,

As someone that is cursed to inevitably find some obscure bug the second I start using some piece of software I'm happy I'm not the only one

> I wrote an article this past year that talks about silent bugs that slowly eat resources and collectively can be very expensive in terms of wasted time and energy

"Using JS for backend is ecoterrorism" lmao

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Even for frontend, repurposing on the frontend stuff that were done in the past on the backend can be ecoterrorism squared.

For instance, a small team of 40 people found no issue sending 4MB of json english to chinese string localisation to each website visitor for angular to translate. 1 million visitor a month in Hong Kong alone, 4 million MB + a few second of mapping per user per month completely pointless...

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