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You make quite a claim, and then only discuss speed and throughput. App boxes are usually pretty easy to scale up (and cheap). The efficiency of your app layer
by ztratar 9y ago
You make quite a claim, and then only discuss speed and throughput.
App boxes are usually pretty easy to scale up (and cheap). The efficiency of your app layer in terms of I/O is very rare the bottleneck for a scaled application.
The best reasons to use Node.js:
- Single language for FE and Backend. Easier to recruit and build things.
- Much faster to build things, on average, than in Go (or especially C++)
I'm not saying it's great, or better than Go/Rust/etc. It has obvious weaknesses, but to say "There's no good reason" is to only view development from one perspective.
- contenttypegeek 9y agoOh, I'm neither the author nor do I necessary agree with all the conclusions, just ran into this article on twitter and wanted to see what HN thinks grabs popcorn style and all ;) Sound like the 2017 version of "Rails doesn't scale" - obviously you can make EVERYTHING scale. Plus, saying 'never' in a programming context is never a good idea...