Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Musk would probably think that’s just fine.

  Server-side javascript is an abomination, but there’s more of it around than you might think.

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  • NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Node.js is a fantastic tool for web servers. Its event loop allows it to rival much lower-level languages in performance while remaining easy to write and maintain. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for nearly a decade.

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    • green@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just no man.

      Yes, JavaScript has been the most popular language but it is exclusively because of the front-end. Many companies do not want to pay for separate back-end devs and ask their front-end devs to do it instead. These people (ab)use JS because they’re most comfortable with it and are under crunch; so we end up with the abomination that is back-end JS.

      It is NOT rivaling much lower-level languages; it can’t even rival C#.

      First off, it is interpreted. You are never going to be faster than competently written C, C++, Go, nor Rust. Secondly, the resources it takes to exist makes in a non-option for embedded machines - which Social-Security facilities are all but guaranteed to use.

      Not to mention the horrendous (and insecure) package infrastructure, and under-powered core libraries - it would be the fullest extent disaster.

      The saddest part? The larpers at DOG(shit)E are all but guaranteed to pick the worst tools for the job, over-engineer, and have extremely poor management. Meaning whatever they ship WILL collaspe the system day 1; and all of the people refusing to pay attention will be like “hOw CouLd THis HaPPen”

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      • NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I was only responding to the idea that no one should ever use NodeJS, as it’s good as a web server.

        A Honda Civic is a great car for what it’s built for and people know how to drive it. But I wouldn’t use it to haul gravel or drive the Indy 500.

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    • turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that.

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