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by bofaGuy 808 days ago
I’ve worked on several large and prominent projects; most of which experienced a large layoff of engineers in the middle of development. As the team who regularly takes over laid off team’s work with 1 engineer to the previous 10. The top things that slows our team down is “legacy” node applications (it seems like every time you turn around, whatever JavaScript or node version you used is out of date) and figuring out why an anonymous function exists and what it does.

Also due to the multiple style choices and options in JavaScript the readability is trash.