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Velocity is only measured by the value you introduce. Incorrect code decreases value.

No. They want users to become customers AND products.

Without a blink, McAfee.

This abomination has the ability to put more than decent computer into a miserable slug. I cannot imagine how much my client would have saved in productivity from all its employees and contractors if that thing was uninstalled.

> Good software is reusable. I can import functions from 1,000,000 different npm modules all into my project and they don't fuck with each other, right?

I just spent the whole day trying to fix compatibility issues between different versions of npm libraries transitively imported in a project. Reusability in JS is a joke.

HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language. And SQL is Turing complete.

That's more subtle, as individual anonymized data point can not identify an individual, but a linked set of those can, with a very high percentage of confidence. Facebook can always play the card that each data point are anonymous, hence not part of your data, and keep everything.

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Is it just me or does this recommendation reads more like a medium blog post from some developer advocate than like a formal specification ?

P5 is indeed the official port of Processing for Java (Processing.js being an independent attempt from John Resig). But like Processing, P5 is more about artistic realisations than applied use, which all of your alternate descriptions tend to lead to.

The only, and still unmatched, advantage of using applets was having access to external devices, such as smart card readers, in order to be used with eID, for example. This is not possible with this plugin. The only interest would be for some old applets you don't have sources anymore and aren't techie enough to use a decompiler to retrieve some codebase to work with.

Const exists too, but for compile-time constant. Var and val are ok due to the general conciseness of the language (they don't get lost in the noise of other ceremonies). Plus, being a language though to benefit from strong tooling, IDE's will generally display the two differently.

I don't know... Jenkins?

I mean, it is battle tested, has all the features you mention, plus pipeline of tasks, is extensible, can be clustered if needed, and, as a bonus, can serve as a CI as well.

The only downside I see could be the memory footprint, or the fact that you might despise Java.

Thing is, by the time you have to take back this application for maintenance, chances are high that the then mainstream framework will be outdated, newcomers won't even know it, the doc will have vanished in a poor "let's move to this new shiny TLD", and still the business logic of the application will be vastly undocumented as well.

I was on your side for a long time, but I've come to appreciate a minimalist, simple, well documented in-house framework over a hype-driven "solve-all-the-thing" one, even free and with a currently big community.

No, they don't. Behind the scene, it's Lucene that is creating a set of inverted indexes. While extremely performant for text search, it is also destructive and partial comparing to the initial dataset. So, there is no way to migrate an index to another one.