It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
Four or five years here, after years more with Java, C#, and others; I have complicated feelings about it. I miss strong typing, but not enough to throw TypeScript or Flow on top of it, and then again the borderline-crazy way it works is eminently exploitable on the off-chance you need to make the same object think it's three different things at the same time (which I have). I like the functional aspects with map and reduce and so forth in the standard library. I wish there were fewer gotchas like nested brackets not counting, string addition, and return-on-its-own-line. Overall I think it's a reasonably expressive language and it's been making some big improvements lately but it's never going to escape the history holding it back.
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Four or five years here, after years more with Java, C#, and others; I have complicated feelings about it. I miss strong typing, but not enough to throw TypeScript or Flow on top of it, and then again the borderline-crazy way it works is eminently exploitable on the off-chance you need to make the same object think it's three different things at the same time (which I have). I like the functional aspects with
mapandreduceand so forth in the standard library. I wish there were fewer gotchas like nested brackets not counting, string addition, and return-on-its-own-line. Overall I think it's a reasonably expressive language and it's been making some big improvements lately but it's never going to escape the history holding it back.