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lucian1900 on Nov 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Githu...

I think this is a little sad. Pragmatically, NodeJS is great. But the only reason it's popular is because browsers only run one (deeply flawed) language.

maxwell on Nov 26, 2011 [–]

Remind me which existing language(s) aren't deeply flawed?

jjm on Nov 26, 2011 | [–]

Yeah seriously. The be all end all of languages has yet to arrive. Language and programming is an art, not some maximist metric. The Mona lisa is as flawed as JavaScript and every other language that exist.

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