[Sammi]

Modern js is not what it was. Ergonomics of nodejs v20 are not in the same ballpark as node v6. A lot has happened since v12 even.

Js definitely has become a pleasant language to script in. And it's sooooo much faster that python and Ruby.

[lloeki]

> And it's sooooo much faster that python and Ruby.

That advantage becomes vanishingly small when the language task is to glue together a bunch of spawn/fork/exec to external processes.

If the glue code somehow needs actual heavy processing, that processing can be factored out into another program dedicated to that, leaving only glue code. Side effect: the heavy processing code immediately becomes composable!

[petre]

Still the same footguns for the sake of backwards compatibility. Things like:

  typeof '' == 'string'
  false

And many others that I'm are too depressing to mention. This is the latest one that I got surprised with.

Yes, it's fast but so is Lua, Dart or even Racket.

[DemocracyFTW2]

wha?

    Welcome to Node.js v19.9.0.
    Type ".help" for more information.
    > typeof '' == 'string'
    true

???

[Sammi]

Can I qoute my comment verbatim back at you?

Seriously. Just don't use ==. Use ===. Et voila you're using a modern pleasant scripting language.

Modern guides on js won't ever mention ==. As a noob today you won't ever learn it. In a big project there will be a linter to stop you