Nothing in the article said “why hasn’t this been researched by the CS community?” The author was complaining about the state of things, and I don’t disagree. Programming is too hard. Error messages are always funky and assume expertise. And perhaps the node folks should better understand that beginners are often a target of their product and should find ways to make it more accessible to them.
Blueprints and Scratch are widely used and are important tools. Your comment sounds very dismissive, and if you meant to be, then I think you’re unaware of their impact and reach.
That said I don’t fully buy the author’s exact argument:
- node.js local install IS for a traditional programming environment on the CLI
- you don’t need node built in when you have the browser
- plenty of web IDEs exist that do as the author wishes… run node code in the browser while also editing it.
Blueprints and Scratch are widely used and are important tools. Your comment sounds very dismissive, and if you meant to be, then I think you’re unaware of their impact and reach.
That said I don’t fully buy the author’s exact argument:
- node.js local install IS for a traditional programming environment on the CLI - you don’t need node built in when you have the browser - plenty of web IDEs exist that do as the author wishes… run node code in the browser while also editing it.