+1,009,257 -4,024

wild

Turns out "its just an experiment, you all are overreacting" was just a lie to damp criticism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

I'm actually excited for somebody trying experimenting with automated translation, but I'm afraid this will be lots of backwards compatibility issues.

I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now.

The only silver lining I see is that the server side JS community for some reason is already used to breakages all the time.