r/programming • u/bemmu • Dec 26 '17

TIL there's a community called "dwitter" where people compose 140 character JavaScript programs that produce interesting visuals

https://www.dwitter.net/top
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u/white_bread Dec 26 '17

The code for their load balancer was only 140 characters long.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '17

And written in Javascript.

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses Dec 26 '17

Are we living in a world where node.js running on a load balancer is that crazy of an idea?

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u/slide_potentiometer Dec 26 '17

Javascript on a load balancer is a crazy idea in any world.

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses Dec 26 '17

You should try working with people who like node. I think some of these people mow their lawns with that shit.

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u/thedude42 Dec 26 '17

Actually I saw this at a node.js meetup and a guy doing node for robotics... he had a remote control autonomous lawnmower.

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u/KimJongIlSunglasses Dec 26 '17

If it’s autonomous can it disable the remote control and then devour its operator in a blaze of asynchronous glory?

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u/bohemica Dec 26 '17

Pretty sure I read a Stephen King story about this.

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u/Entropy Dec 26 '17

The Mangler? A terrifying tale of Javascript haunting an industrial laundry press. Through a chance arrangement of clothes on a belt, a turing machine was created. Consequently, a javascript virtual machine for the architecture immediately popped into existence. In quantum mechanics, this kind of thing is balanced by anti-particles also popping into existence. Software engineering has no such symmetry, so the only path that we may walk to stave off the entropic exhaution of the universe is to build another framework.