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?
I have another non-rhetorical question, for both of you: What does it say about software eng as a maturing field, that easy-to-learn "toy" tools quickly became mainstream deployment tools?
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I don't know, really. 1. We have better tooling around monitoring and troubleshooting, and thus are more bold. 2. We have so many libraries! Our toys often stand on giants' shoulders. 3. We have better dev tools in general. It's hard to screw up when rust compiler yells at you
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It was briefly node, but not anymore, given the large amount of BigCo buyin of the node ecosystem.
So what is it?