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NASA, PayPal, Uber, Facebook, Yahoo, Fitbit, Intuit are all using Node.js...guess they're all just niche too?
by chrisabrams 10y ago
NASA, PayPal, Uber, Facebook, Yahoo, Fitbit, Intuit are all using Node.js...guess they're all just niche too?
- StavrosK 10y agoIsn't everyone "using" everything? Unless a large percentage of the code the company is currently using is in a language, I don't consider the company to be "using" the language.
- dcwca 10y agoSo nobody's really using anything unless they use it exclusively? I guess nobody's using anything then. Google isn't using Go. Microsoft isn't using C#.
- abritinthebay 10y agoA significant amount of the code in many of those companies is Node - especially in non-legacy code. Your comment ignores legacy code bases, which are common at large companies, in favor of an unrealistic yard stick.
- horrido 10y agoClearly, Node is widely used. It would be silly to deny that. The real question is to what extent is it being used, i.e., is it used to write large, mission-critical systems, is it used beyond developing client-facing web applications (which tend not to be very big), is it used company-wide in lieu of previous language infrastructures such as Java, C#, Python and C++? Now, that would be impressive.