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> Also, Node.js with Nginx is more scalable out of the box than Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, PHP, etc. Hell it's comparable to Java, which is incredible for a
by soulbadguy 10y ago
> Also, Node.js with Nginx is more scalable out of the box than Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, PHP, etc. Hell it's comparable to Java, which is incredible for a dynamic language.
Citation or link to any benchmarks ?
> The difference is, you can write a Node.js web application 10x faster than the equivalent application in Java, and with a drastically smaller codebase
Building a prototype, maybe; But's it's hard to believe that Node.js give a 10x boost in programmer productivity in the long run. The recent success of typescript is an indication of the limit of dynamic languages for big projects