Brutal. Hilarious. Some good points. Some dumb ones (they don't seem to understand how important failure is and why it's good to share your failures). Their mockery is actually quite diverse.
===SV Celebrity Worship===
"Why Elon Musk is the most perfect human being alive today"
===Political===
"A Heart Divided: How a gay JavaScript programmer feels about Brendan Eich"
"Please don't mention Condoleezza Rice. Our autism is above politics."
"10 ways we unknowingly oppress female programmers and enforce patriarchy"
===Juvenile Cliq===
"Reasons why this <obscure new non-stable language that can't even compile™ yet> will replace C as a system language and why you SHOULD use it if you don't want to be left in the dust."
"Why we switched to [obscure framework] and you should too."
===HN flaws===
"<userX>, you seem to be hellbanned for no reason."
===Feel Good Superior Heroism===
"Check out this TED talk about teaching node.js to kids in Africa."
===Love of Javascript===
"Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?"
"How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it."
"Breaking news! POP3 and IMAP written in Javascript!"
"How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript"
"Linux kernel ported to JavaScript running in the browser. See how we did it."
"How I made a filesystem in javascript."
"How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript."
"How to avoid getting HIV using JavaScript."
"The Linux kernel doesn't have enough javascript."
"I recommended my boss to rewrite the local powergrid infrastructure to javascript and how I lost my job."
They may make fun of this, but implementing another 2048 clone has helped me become a bootstrapped digital nomad with seed funding, as well as helping me to learn Ruby, node.js, mongodb, AngularJS (including Providers and Factories), while simultaneously embracing JSON to double my sales by 2x within just a couple of days at a recent hackathon.
Show HN: cool project that I built (0 comments, 0 points)
Show HN: cool project that I built with Go and Node.js (23442 comments, 63563234 points)
(Not that I'm bitter about lack of exposure due to not being a clickbaiter or anything... And no, it's not that people looked at the link and just didn't think it was interesting -- according to web server logs, I didn't get a single click at all :P )
Only if we pretend that the HN and 4chan audiences are disjoint. I'm afraid whats happening here is more inbreeding than many are comfortable to admit.
Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments.
It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.
This post and the comments here completely violate the HN guidelines. This shouldn't have been upvoted, let alone be the top post. Thank you mods, for deleting this.
No, it's awful. But it's the only client side scripting language out there, and Web guys love to pretend they're just as skilled as systems guys. They take concepts that systems programmers discovered 30 years ago, put a fancy name on it and do it worse.
Funny, but that's exactly what people were saying about Java programmers in the 90's. Now, the Java ecosystem is full of useful libraries and well optimized systems. It's become the default language for implementing big business systems. I wonder if Javascript won't simply follow the same course?
EDIT: I seem to have struck a nerve. Please read this at face value and not as some kind of snark. What I say is factually true. There are plenty of horrible things written in Java, but eventually, that becomes true of any language, and there are tons of great things written in it. It's no accident that HFT is written in Java nowadays. Also no accident that Clojure and Scala are written on top of it.
===SV Celebrity Worship===
"Why Elon Musk is the most perfect human being alive today"
===Political===
"A Heart Divided: How a gay JavaScript programmer feels about Brendan Eich"
"Please don't mention Condoleezza Rice. Our autism is above politics."
"10 ways we unknowingly oppress female programmers and enforce patriarchy"
===Juvenile Cliq===
"Reasons why this <obscure new non-stable language that can't even compile™ yet> will replace C as a system language and why you SHOULD use it if you don't want to be left in the dust."
"Why we switched to [obscure framework] and you should too."
===HN flaws===
"<userX>, you seem to be hellbanned for no reason."
===Feel Good Superior Heroism===
"Check out this TED talk about teaching node.js to kids in Africa."
===Love of Javascript===
"Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?"
"How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it."
"Breaking news! POP3 and IMAP written in Javascript!"
"How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript"
"Linux kernel ported to JavaScript running in the browser. See how we did it."
"How I made a filesystem in javascript."
"How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript."
"How to avoid getting HIV using JavaScript."
"The Linux kernel doesn't have enough javascript."
"I recommended my boss to rewrite the local powergrid infrastructure to javascript and how I lost my job."