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Can an experienced JavaScript developer provide some constructive reasons as to why that code might be problematic? (e.g. Is it the eval?)

Might be a good learning opportunity for others, too.

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I have my doubts the folks criticizing it actually read the code. Even if they have, what's the point of shitting on someone's pet project? Note that none of them actually give a reason for why the think it's bad. I think the folks criticizing are simply being bullies.

I think the code is fine and the project serves a nice niche. I can never remember the syntax for sed either, so I might actually use this project. No such thing as bad press I guess :)

I don't think it had anything to do with the code. She rewrote sed in JS, which IMO provoked the response (more here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5107625).

If that were true why aren't their uproars over any of these projects:

https://github.com/grosser/pru https://github.com/colinta/ned https://github.com/aljungberg/pyle https://github.com/zzak/gsub https://github.com/bjfletcher/node-js-sed

I'm sure there are more. These are just a few I could find a few minutes.

Sorry, I'm not trying to call you out here. I just have serious doubts that the criticism has anything to do with merit. In other words, I don't think it makes sense to rationalize jerky behavior :(

I dunno, did the other projects get tweeted and hit the right combination of followers? Why does anything get attention/go viral?

It's a fair question. I'm honestly confused about why this blew up in the first place.

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