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Discussion on: Why do I HATE NodeJS?

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Kevin Kivi • Edited

Some people write bad apps with node and therefore node is bad? I cannot see your logic here.

Electron enables you to use known skills to produce UI (HTML, CSS, JS). Saying that this is a solution to a non-problem is profoundly ignorant. This is actually a fantastic thing. Very useful for many people. A lot of apps would not even get developed if this wasn't a possibility! It enables hobbyists webdevs to create something from scratch.

I only find Electron apps to be an issue with slow computers. So for me, that is a non issue. Because I don't use slow computers. But I do get that it is not the best way to build UIs. It however is the best way, if you wanna use existing codebase (JS). If you want to write apps that work fast on slow computers, don't use Electron, obviously.

After reading this, I cannot see why you would "hate" nodejs. Some people use the language in a way that you don't like, so you hate nodejs? What is happening here?

Unity Theorem itself is absolutely ridiculous.
"A powerful, easy to use tool that anyone can use to produce quality items of a subject will lead to an excess of subjects with none of the quality the tool can provide."
This applies to any easy to use content creation tool. YouTube is full of horrible videos videos and one could say oversaturated. Oversaturation only matters in the 1980s video game crash. Nowadays we have the ability to sift through that data. NPM has literally hundreds of thousands of bad apps. Does that hinder me finding good apps? No! Of course not.
Should one hate Unity or Node.js or YouTube, or any other easy content creation service? Of course not. There is no reason to hate these things.

Oversaturation would only be an issue, if one found it a problem to find the good stuff. Or if the bad stuff would devalue the good stuff (1980s video game crash).

Again, I don't think you provided enough reasons to hate any easy content creation service.

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Loralighte • Edited

I feel like I should clarify that the title was more of a bit of clickbait to explain the concept of the Unity Theorem and express some things I am more or less upset about with the idea. I love the comment.

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I also feel like this is an important thing to express with the Unity Theorem. I will come back to it later as I re-read my article and I feel I didn't do it justice.