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Bologna: nothing truly performant uses Javascript because Javascript can't get at hardware accelerators in their full glory. Apple's macOS and iOS are themsel
by jjtheblunt 10y ago
Bologna: nothing truly performant uses Javascript because Javascript can't get at hardware accelerators in their full glory. Apple's macOS and iOS are themselves desktop apps, in the latter case for a pocketable desktop, and they resolutely don't rely on the very constrained subset of 50 years of engineering called Javascript.
- cyberpunk 10y agoHave you seen how many messages you can pump through and transform on a node process? Yes, there is an abstraction and that's a cost, but v8 perfomance is "good enough" for almost everything. Maybe not a coin miner or a graphics engine; but cpu is never really the constraint for applications such as those inside electron containers. Where you see them chewing 100% of a core, those are bugs. Also, while th e language has flaws modern; JS vms are pretty bleeding edge....