Conventional wisdom: “It’s a toy! Fine for internal tools, but you couldn’t possibly write real production code that way.” In 1998, they said that about Java. In 2006, they said it about Rails. What are they saying that about today?
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Replying to @sarahmei
I still hear that about node, mostly from the Java dev crowd. Some people still see it as a fad that is bound to eventually go away. Funny thing is, I currently contract as a Java dev at a fintech place with *lots* of mainframe code. Some of the COBOL devs think of Java as a fad
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Back in my tender years, I did a lot of assembler programming in platforms based upon Motorola 680x0 processors. The prevailing opinion in our little community was that Intel x86 processors were a fad. Group think can a be pretty misleading thing.
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Having programmed asm on Moto & Intel... I'm sorry to say I think the good guys lost 
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