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If liking JavaScript makes me a hipster then give me the skinny jeans!

Also, I'd just like to say it's fun to see people shitting on JS when otherwise they're all about "nothing is bad or good, everything is a tradeoff, right tool for the job". I realize the author is making a separate point about JS consuming all of frontend, but you can just smell the contempt dripping off the tweets he includes.

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Engineering is fundamentally about tradeoffs because you have multiple objectives (e.g. high performance and loose coupling) and it's not possible to be optimal in all of them simultaneously. However, it is easily possible for a poor design to be way, way off the Pareto frontier and not particularly good at anything. So everything is a tradeoff, but things can still be bad or good.

That's not even meant to be a comment one way or the other on Javascript, although I will not voluntarily adopt node.js for server side application development.

Good analogy, Pareto frontier is a great way to describe it - and a perspective I had never thought of.

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