Ryan Dahl
10 Things I Regret About Node.js

Discussion: Issue #164

The creator of Node JS, Ryan Dahl, recently gave a talk at JSConf EU 2018 titled “10 Things I Regret About Node.js”

Here’s some of the things he regrets:

• dynamic languages are great for certain things. In a server though, you want things to be statically typed. (Probably why he wrote Deno in TypeScript and Go)
• design mistakes:
  • didn’t stick with Promises in Node (in the beginning), keeping them could have sped up async/await development.
  • security
  • build system (GYP)
  • package.json

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