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Comment by coldtea | Hacker News Reader

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This is a low effort comment, overly negative and provides no value to the discussion.

To be fair to the original commenter I believe they were making a Mean Girls (2004) reference. The line in question is "Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.". Likely just a funny quip and nothing serious :)

Yes, and that’s actually the problem with the comment. HN guidelines are for substantive discussions, not funny quips. There’s a few HN comment guidelines [1] that could apply here, but the most directly applicable one is “Omit internet tropes.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's both a throwaway quip, and a real sentiment: I think that Deno is not getting any traction, surely not the intended traction expected when it was created (and by Node's creator no less), and it will just keep hanging on in the fringe.

Besides, it wouldn't hurt HN to loosen up a little once in a while. You know, obsessive total adherence to rules is never a good thing - even to the law.

If the original comment was funny，I wouldn’t have downvoted.

But it’s just low effort, extremely online snark.

Give them a break, competition is clearly a good thing in this domain. At least drives node.js from stagnation.

Does it though? I see Node developing quite quickly by itself, even though Deno doesn't have any real adoption to give them anything to worry about.

Sure, competition is good. But I've seen a lot of devs get caught into eternally fringe doomed projects.

Which is fine if you understand what it is, but can hurt you if you think you're making a sure bet on a soon-to-be major platform.

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