What is the best language and why is it node.js?

>>58304941
Im having a hard time naming a more cancerous combo of software than npm+node+electron

NPM works about 20 percent of the time throwing cryptic error messages.

Electron is like squeezing a turd into a picture frame and calling it a standalone desktop """"app""""

Node runs painfully slow on lower end hardware despite being marketed as lightweight and efficent. It has shit multicore support.

Use Python Golang or even Lua

>>58305099
npm works for me like 99% of the time

are you sure you're using the latest version?

never had efficiency problems with node but you should really only use it for lightweight I/O applications. anything processor heavy should be done with something else.

>>58304941
Why does this exist? Because web devs don't want to part with JavaScript?

>>58305121
I was using it on a raspi.
originally a got npm+node from apt but after 20+ errors on everthing i need i compiled them from source. It took fucking ages. Even after that it still didnt work so i said fuck it and switched to golang.

>>58304941

node is a great VM (made by people of Smalltalk fame) stuck with a really shitty language (Javascript)

>>58304941
>spawned out of the asshole of frontend webdevs that can't write code
> the best language
i shiggy diggy

>>58305223
what's wrong with javascript?

>>58304941
>Node
>Language

Kys yourself

>>58305136
In the original talk by Joyent, he basically said he needed a language that allowed function objects to use as callbacks, that's basically why.

That in combination with the event-driven nature of V8 allowed him to develop a simple runtime that was nonblocking.

>>58305393
anon, please.

>>58305393
You can't do autismal embedded development in it, so it sucks.

>>58305393
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8

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>>58306349
says who ?

>>58305772
>Kill yourself yourself
LOL

>>58306354
>>58306270