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I don't really see a pervasive point to this rant. It is true that OOP can be reduced to message passing, and that there's a specific style of OOP a lot of people see as "OOP", but that doesn't mean that this style is "just obfuscated procedural code, or uglified functional code". That OOP can be implemented on top of functional style code, or procedural style code says nothing about it being "true OOP" or not. For example, the great Common Lisp Object System is built with functional primitives. And that makes it more elegant, not less. Building an object system on top of a functional/procedural language is syntactic sugar, and there's nothing inherently bad about it. After all we write code for people to read.

He only talks about wise men who protect truth, so the truth being true is a given I'd say.

EDIT: Of course he's talking to people who swear by the truth they protect. Instead of telling them they're wrong, telling them others might be right is far more likely to get them to consider his point of view -- that other "truths" are just as equal.

Buddha about Language Wars:

Then the Buddha gave advice of extreme importance to the group of Brahmins: 'It is not proper for a wise man who maintains (lit. protects) truth to come to the conclusion: "This alone is Truth, and everything else is false'.' Asked by the young Brahmin to explain the idea of maintaining or protecting truth, the Buddha said: ' A man has a faith. If he says, "This is my faith", so far he maintains truth. But by 9 that he cannot proceed to the absolute conclusion: "This alone is Truth, and everything else is false". In other words, a man may believe what he likes, and he may say 'I believe this'. So far he respects truth. But because of his belief or faith, he should not say that what he believes is alone the Truth, and everything else is false.

(from "What the Buddha taught, a really great book!)

It certainly beats using NodeJS.

EDIT: Yea, this was meant as a reference to the coreutils-in-nodejs post on the frontpage.

It's a communication medium for me. Customer service is but a subset of it.

I'm not talking necessarily about elegance, but performance, safety, the ability to run on embedded devices, a widely-available toolchain and so on.

Apart from that, it's great to have a favorite language, but choosing a hammer for every task does not seem like the mark of a great craftsman for me.

Apart from this being of questionable usability, why do people feel the need to solve every problem with (Node)JS? I can think about a ton of languages better suited for systems programming at the top of the hat.