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Easy, he hand picked a 100 people of the JS community (including him) and then decided that hes the only competent programmer amongst them.

• tjholowaychuk 15y ago
  umm no haha, I'm certainly amongst the average. Trust me writing parsers is very trivial, I've written many. Thinking you're a good programmer is perhaps the most naive thing you can do
  • murloc 15y ago
    I know its trivial once demystified specially using parser generators. But language design isn't though. Anyways i think your a pretty decent programmer.
    • tjholowaychuk 15y ago
      sure it is, take a few features from ruby, a few from python, add yaml and there you have it, coffeescript.
      • murloc 15y ago
        What do you think about node? Does it fall in your category of above-average people building tools for the average programmer?
        • tjholowaychuk 15y ago
          they're certainly above average but even Ryan himself is humble enough to admit he's not amazing, I dont recall what his exact words were. I think it was on google+, he was talking about how he works with such brilliant people (which are lesser known), but yeah overall node's popularity is largely because it attracts more average people to the scene, vs things like erlang or haskell which are fantastic but attract a lot less attention. This is also why I dont do conferences, I dont want to be known for going around promoting things (like crock), sure I'll blog about features added once and a while but other than that I want the projects to speak for themselves. Eventually if I can gain enough knowledge then sure being well known is neat since you can leverage it to hopefully expose better projects, but there's no end to what you can learn in this industry.
          • murloc 15y ago
            Well said.
  • iso8859-1 15y ago
    Parsing: the solved problem that isn't: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327313 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2327313