Node.js: My New Preoccupation

So, it’s is 2012! What is a new year without a new preoccupation?

I have been working on a .NET based application using MVVM. All I can say is:  .NET seems like a very uncomfortable straitjacket to me.

So, in my spare time, I dream of making my escape. This time, I am playing with Node.js.  I won’t say much about it right now, except to say that I am playing with the idea of developing my own little library to make node code easier to write and maintain.

Code readability has become a big commitment for me. I work with so much code that is virtually unmaintainable and unreadable. It offends me. I do not mean to offend or unfairly criticize anybody that I have worked with, but I have grown frustrated by the fact that programmers do not know how to write clean, beautiful and elegant code. Bad names, bad functions, and poor architecture abound.

I like node, but the first thing I notice is that the code can get ugly pretty fast. Today, I am playing with tamejs, which makes it easier to write clean asynchronous code.  For now, I am calling my library GumMachine. More about that later.