node.js seems like a cruel joke

[joonas-fi]

• javascript, a dynamic language...
• in average the quality of code is pretty poor
• strpos-style packages
• http/https requests making are two different APIs, so you've to detect for http:|https: yourself
• http request making is really painful. you've to set up error callbacks for both request and response objects
• you can either http.get(urlString) or http.get(options), but not both (if you give URL in options, you have to parse the URL into a structural form first and assign each component of URL which is error prone (forget hash, port or scheme?). this looks like it's designed by a child
• typescript type definitions for node look like a joke, probably because nothing has proper structure
• nothing seems to be included in the standard library. the contrast is very stark when compared to Golang