trial and stderr

NodeJS pros:

• Share code between server and client

NodeJS cons:

• Writing more Javascript

My latest gripe is with all the amazingly unintuitive behavior encountered while using Sinon. Sinon is a mocking framework, which is a kind of thing that interacts subtly with the nature of objects and modules and names in a programming language. In Python, these things are pretty easy to reason about, making mocking a breeze. I've been wrestling with Sinon for a few days now and am still being surprised by the contortions necessary to get mocks to work in the unfamiliar jungle of the Javascript module and name-binding system.