i think the thing about node.js is that it manages to combine the worst parts of web programming with the worst parts of native programming
@omar do people still even use node in the recent years? I haven't come across it again in a long time, I've seen some people replace it with something called deno, looks kind of the same sort of thing from the outside.
@neauoire I'm not sure! there's also a newer thing called Bun which seems better-designed (faster, a lot thought through and written from scratch, reasonable interface with C)
@neauoire I think I still run into Node a lot when I'm looking up specific things I want to do (right now camera stuff & Emscripten) since that's usually old code/build systems from 5-10 years ago which is all Node
@neauoire but I haven't tried any of the new stuff / don't know what someone writing a new backend or command-line software in JS(??) would use