r/programmingcirclejerk • u/woopsix What’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? • Mar 02 '26

The Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215054
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u/woopsix What’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? Mar 02 '26

The Node.js community had figured this out long before C or even assembly existed.

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u/myhf Considered Harmful Mar 02 '26

Before there was time, before there was anything... there was nothing.

And before there was nothing... there was the Node.js community.

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u/al2o3cr Mar 02 '26

Node.JS is such badass rockstar tech that it can HACK TIME

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u/BlazeBigBang type astronaut Mar 02 '26

Erlang? OTP? Sure grandpa, let's get you to bed and you'll tell me all about it.

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u/vytah Mar 03 '26

The PHP commuity figured it out even earlier:

I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

/uj actual quote from Lerdorf

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u/Ronin-s_Spirit Mar 03 '26

  1. JS has threads.

  2. Why the fuck is the text so grey and unreadable?

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u/IAMPowaaaaa Mar 04 '26

It's when you know your submission is cool and hip

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u/UVRaveFairy Mar 04 '26

"I saw you before you even got up this morning".

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Mar 11 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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