everyone wants this and like its one of those things that like
even this is sorta horrifying to me
the thing about nodejs is that since you have access to the system theoretically you can metaprogram by editing the memory of the nodejs process
like if you wanted to you could edit the AST parser and have it accept perl-esque function calls
[stares out into a crowd of js programmers with just pure horror on their faces] haha wouldnt that be neat
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@twitter@mastodon.technology @Elizafox shock and horror and awe and horror and
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@twitter@mastodon.technology @Elizafox i was considering doing a nodejs demo but the issue with that is anything i make someone would open the source file and just die
@radicalgraffiti that's true but it's like not the entire thing
@radicalgraffiti nope
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come on and slam
@gaylizard hello lamb!!
@brunodias@mastodon.social i'm sure the block chain can fix this https://computerfairi.es/media/ntcbPuehE3_13839ZiE
honestly being like near or in politics messes with me because i am very much a "okay i'm just going to do things until i'm pretty sure stuff works again" and apparently that's not how politics works and you can't just destroy things that are making things worse because that's not ""diplomatic"" or something
i will no longer be on computerfairi.es
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