It pains me seeing people recommend javascript.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      Point being, please don't put garbage in the backend just because you're fluent in said garbage, for the sake of your backend and ops/infra/reliability engineers

      I'm sorry javascript happens to you on the reg but don't inflict it on others

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I'm not a developer (yet?). What's your preferred backend language? C#? Python? Rust? Java?

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          2 years ago

          Ahh gotcha! Sorry if I came off a little hostile, I'm in the middle of begging the developers at work to not write any more nodejs apps because they're all dumpster fires that no one maintains (making them my problem, and I really fucking hate javascript)

          I like Ruby best for web servers without major performance requirements, and for general-purpose utilities and scripts. For high-performance webservers I like Clojure, Java is boring and a bloated but ultimately fine. Super curious about Rust and Elixir, but won't use them for anything that isn't toy-project shaped until they have more robust tooling and community support