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The characterizations of the framework author as "evil" and "dickish" seem a bit extreme, and unfair.

Otherwise, it's nice to see credit given where it's due.

If you're talking about TJ I don't think anyone said he was "evil" or "dickish". The selling of a repo on Github is questionable however it is no more questionable than Ryan selling NodeJS to Joyent. But frankly nobody really believes IBM gives a damn about Express, so people should move on and use something else, because it ain't gona be maintained seriously . For them Express is just PR for their platform Blue mix as they try to attract businesses based on NodeJS.

I'm not an active Java programmer but my exposure to the JDK has left me with the impression that it was more important to make it academically correct over practical. When I looked at the Java spec I thought to myself, "What the hell is this? This isn't the nasty Java I've been dealing with. This is actually fairly clean."

I spoke with a some people who were high up in Sun back in the day (direct reports to Scott McNealy high) who said the JDK mess happened after IBM "adopted" Java.

So whenever I hear of IBM embracing a new technology I shudder. I've been learning Swift and it seems quite nice but to hear IBM has decided to go all in on it makes me very, very worried. I haven't used Express in a few years but I can only imagine what they've done to it since.

> I don't think anyone said he was "evil" or "dickish"

Dude, the article literally calls him both of those things and links to another article that is entirely about what a dick the author thinks he is.[0]

[0] http://hueniverse.com/2014/07/30/open-source-dickishness/

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