Comment by k__
9 years ago
"In some sense, getting 1k colors out of a CGA is the contra-movement to node.js"
Is it?
I have the feeling node.js development has the same spirit, getting some tech (JS) to do something it was never ment to do.
9 years ago
"In some sense, getting 1k colors out of a CGA is the contra-movement to node.js"
Is it?
I have the feeling node.js development has the same spirit, getting some tech (JS) to do something it was never ment to do.
Superficially yes. But there's no real difficulty to one of those problems, and amazing fascinating difficulty to the other.
Getting JavaScript to work as a server side language is about as challenging as getting a crew cab pickup truck to work as a 2 passenger commuting vehicle. [1]
The kinds of things done in demoscene (such as kkrieger) are more like finding a way to use a motorcycle to haul several tons of cargo. (Is that even possible? I don't know, but "Is that even possible?" is PRECISELY the feeling demoscene stuff evokes in the user. It is art.)
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[1]: I'm gonna get in trouble here so I have to say: I don't mean this as an insult to nodejs, since difficulty has nothing to do with utility. But way before nodejs, any novice programmer could have put together such a thing in a weekend by gluing libraries together (e.g., Java had a JavaScript engine for a long time, and that's probably how I would have done it). What nodejs accomplishes is creating a way for people who only have learned JavaScript, of which there are many due to the web, to immediately add server-side coding to their abilities without having to learn a whole new language. I wouldn't use nodejs for my own work, but making programming more accessible is always good.
I give you that, but I would say JS is not great for "Getting more with less", which is certainly a goal of these productions.
I guess, it would be possbile to get more with less, but yes this doesn't seem to be the goal with node.js :)
>>getting some tech (JS) to do something it was never ment to do
That's pretty much my reaction to the entire modern WWW. What started as a way to serve some simple static text has evolved into something that is truly amazing. Using a modern "webapp" like Fusion 360 (3D CAD) is a miracle of technology.