Node Is Done. Done Is Node.

I'm not totally sure what the intention of this article is.

Is it to deter people away from using node as an application platform? Is it to deter people away from web programming in general? Is it to deter people away from using Macs?

In each case no hard evidence is given. Just a lot of baseless opinions.

I don't think this article is appropriate for HN. I didn't learn anything useful from this. If it was meant to be an opinion piece to influence how programmers think, it wasn't done very tastefully. What this article does best is reflect the immaturity of its author.

As far as the node project being over, I don't think that's true. There are surely IO scheduler optimizations that could be made ala http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03.... The speed of JS code could always be improved. The HTTP standard is currently evolving and those changes will need to be made. There are probably other examples I'm failing to list.

All you have to do is read his bio on his web page. It's the ultimate downer list. Of course (for him) Node is done - his life sounds like it's done. What a shame. Good thing we don't have a planet of people filled like him - hating on pretty much everything. If we did, we'd obviously never progress or any progression would come out of some negative act.

Maybe he'll get over it in a few years? In the mean time, those of us who have things to do, because we actually appreciate life, will keep inventing, thinking, striving, working towards the next great thing we love.

Jesus, what is his problem? It seems someone or something upset him, and he ran off and wrote the "worst" possible thing he could about Node, GitHub, and Mac users.

There's good diversity in languages in our field. Get over it. There's a good reason GitHub has done so well. Get over it. There's a good reason why Macs are the most popular amongst designers. Get over it.

node is OVER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGqN3AKOsA

By coincidence, I was going thru my bookmarks this Sat morn and found a link to Ev Bogue. I couldn't remember who he was, so I googled him and found he is person who makes his living writing provocative things and someone doesn't like that:

http://charliebroadway.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-everett-bogue...

Sounds like the guy has had a bad day.

Flagging the flame containing little discussion and lots of random evaluation without backup

"rabble rabble install gentoo".

I sort of agree with his suggestions that putting all of the npm packages in one basket is pretty silly, but the rest is just drivel.

I'm not dead yet... http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/

Huh. And so is PHP...oh wait no.

Wut?

This is why I hate Hacker News.

is ruby done too?