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catonmat.net
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It's not exactly retro, but it has a happy carefree hacker feel to it. And it's positive and not ironic or cynical in tone. Perhaps it's because the logos haven't been touched by your typical SV design bod!
Also, Browserling is very nice.
Blue has been discussed to death, and bright colors are never ideal to everybody, but the sense of hierarchy is the standout requirement to me. Hackers can't get enough of it. I'd guess this is because of the typical ST personality type (Meyers-Briggs).
I like Javascript for my own stuff, but it's a crap foundation for the future of computing (and I wouldn't want to support it for large systems).
1. becomes difficult to maintain large codebases for language-induced problems without multiple external libraries/frameworks/systems and/or expert practitioners.
2. code readability is all over the place (in contrast to, say, Python or Java). In fact, the best written JS I find to largely inscrutable. This is likely a personal failing, but I'm the one writing this list.
3. you have to write in a different language to get Object Oriented capabilities (eg. Typescript, Coffeescript). I'm inclined toward OO, so if I'm going to write in a different language, I might as well go all the way.
In short, amazing things have been in spite of Javascript, not because of it (not strictly true, since you can go nuts with the meta-meta generic programming in JS).
This reads as pretty ironic to me...
The prices can be viewed when you sign in with your browserling account.
I strongly suggest you to put the prices immediately visible: while evaluating different products I started with the ones with a clearer pricing. Think about it: you have to check 10 products, 3 of them require you to create a login just to know how much they cost, the others are upfront about it. Which would you evaluate first?
Keep up the good work.