Does the software industry learn?
I think learning is subjective. The NodeJS world is learning a lot about backend development I guess.<p>So, disclaimer, I am new to Typescript-NodeJS and the npm world but have a significant background in the JVM &#x2F; Spring backend world with Kotlin and Java. I am also too young to be this cynic but I am honestly just baffled.<p>To me the entire NodeJS backend movement seems like they are &quot;Java sucks!&quot; hipsters jumping into the trendy JavaScript ecosystem of the modern web era just to show how cool and progressive they are (???) - all while rediscovering and reinventing backend features that have been invented and in widespread and battle-hardened use for 2-3 decades now.<p>Wow we are using NestJS, Jest, annotations, a dependency injection module and Typescript... congrats, you just rediscovered type systems, mocking, Maven and Spring Boot as they are very handy for backend development.<p>All while bloating your fresh hip ecosystem to an even uglier Frankenstein monster than you can find anywhere in the Java enterprise, transpiling back and forth with 10,000 config files to make framework XYZ interact with each other.<p>And then, JavaScript is running underneath with all its limitations and quirks that will reach feature parity with Kotlin with ES2048. But yea, I guess now you can send JSON natively between systems because it&#x27;s first-class.