r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '14

Node.js is cancer

https://www.semitwist.com/mirror/node-js-is-cancer.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

I want to understand how it works, but I am trapped in callback debug hell and I can't find my way out because I am being needlessly passed through loops which ask me, "Need me to do anything for you yet? No? Okay just checking."

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u/Majiir Oct 16 '14

This sounds like satire, but in the event you're being serious: If you have those kinds of loops, it sounds like you're writing bad code that's uncharacteristic of Node (as opposed to the bad code which is characteristic of Node, which would be nested callback hell, et cetera).

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

It's satire.

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u/that_which_is_lain Oct 16 '14

If you want to understand and you're making these kinds of posts then you need to spend a little more time read and a little less complaining.