Exceedingly harsh but meticulously fair.
@mhoye The denouement is that they didn't even invent server-side JavaScript; we used Rhino on the server long before Node, and Netscape used it as the config language for their server stack in *1999*.
@slightlyoff @mhoye yeah i realized that my wording was potentially ambiguous here. i meant that computer programmers (invented server-side javascript) and (said nothing but bacon for five years around 2010), not that they (invented server-side javascript and said nothing but bacon) for five years around 2010. i remember hearing about server-side javascript for the first time at work around 2001 and laughing out loud because i assumed it was a joke
@aparrish @mhoye Apologies, wasn't meant as a correction so much as a further indictment; most of those folks thought they *were* inventing server-side JS, which really gives you the sense of the depth of the literature they consult before doing...well...anything.
I will forever remember asking at the very first NodeConf (20...11? I think?) if they'd secured the trademarks to Node. This was considered very rude.
...3 years later...:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2236193/why-iojs-decided-to-fork-nodejs.html
@slightlyoff @aparrish Hey, feel free to ignore, but what is the best way to understand the joke? I want to. 😄
I’m not an engineer so I might be missing some piece of context (is Node considered bad?), but I also don’t get the bacon stuff.
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@slightlyoff @mhoye oh i didn't read it as a correction, just wanted to make sure my joke was landing as intended, lol. and yeah i wasn't surprised to go to ryan dahl's blog and discover he's apparently now a weirdo AI accelerationist
