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		soperj on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We created a fake language to root out resume liar... yeah, i never understood that part. People wanting to use javascript on the backend, but not having any of those tools. They exist for a reason, and it's not to make things more complicated.

AtlasBarfed on March 12, 2021 [–]

IMO the tools that have been created to fill the gaps seem to be poor imitations of dotNet, rails, and java frameworks.

The testing framework I saw in a React app were almost straight from java, but somehow (despite JS being more flexible and script) MUCH uglier.

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