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Hard lessons2016-08-24 · Archive

“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)

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“"Competent" deployments with NPM involve enough of a pain in the ass that, after a few years of doing this, I'd actually prefer to manually …”

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“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)

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