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This often isn’t possible.

• pier25 8y ago
  Often? There are cases where large data sets are generated in the browser, but that is not even close to often.
  • chrismeller 8y ago
    Don't forget that JS != browser necessarily... If you're writing a Node app you could very well end up doing this kind of thing a lot (think any kind of ETL process).
    • pier25 8y ago
      True, but if you need to handle large data sets in the server Node is definitely the wrong choice.
  • mort96 8y ago
    Games spend a lot of their time iterating over lists of entities, and there's a lot of javascript games.
    • pier25 8y ago
      Games are not a very common use case of JavaScript. Even in the world of game dev, JavaScript is not common at all.
      • mort96 8y ago
        JS isn't used mostly for games, and most games aren't written in JS, but JS and Canvas has largely taken over the niche of browser games.