berserker-one

Yes, but who remembers Lisp? Whenever anybody mentions live coding and debugging, they immediately think of Smalltalk. Why? Because Smalltalk's implementation is memorable. Smalltalk's implementation is elegant. Lisp has always been rather clunky.

Those are great reasons! But I wonder, why do programmers really need integers?

Maybe because JavaScript encourages bad habits? It's a very sloppy and undisciplined language, esp. with its loose typing, crazy coercions and wildly inconsistent semantics. This language has far more "warts" than any other programming language in wide use today. Jeff Walker calls it a "minefield": http://walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-minefiel...

Of course, some businesses are using Node and JS, but are they using them for mission-critical enterprise work? Node and JS are great for web UI and mobile stuff, and applications of relatively modest size, but for really serious shit? I don't think so.

Well, there's use and then there's use. Are companies like LinkedIn and New York Times using Node for critical enterprise shit, or simply for a web interface for light stuff like mobile and customer interaction? People like to point to PayPal, but that's only one out of hundreds and thousands of major corporations. As the author says, most of the big shops aren't basing their businesses on Node and JS. They put their trust in real languages like Java, C#, Python, C++ and Scala.

That's pretty hard to do, since nearly everything in IT today is web-related: enterprise client/server applications; mobile apps; the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT).

??? I don't see any reference to type safety. Are we reading the same article?

It's a piece of satire. Actually, other people have found the article hilarious. It's a matter of personal taste; not everyone will like it. So far, it has received 10 Recommendations.