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Why not? Using an easy language on a hard problem means you can hire someone who knows a lot about the problem instead of having to worry about the langauge. At
by russell_h 16y ago
Why not? Using an easy language on a hard problem means you can hire someone who knows a lot about the problem instead of having to worry about the langauge. At least until the language starts getting in your way (and, in my limited experience, between Javascript and Node's Buffers, you won't find yourself too limited on protocol implementations).
- viraptor 16y agoThis may be just my impression, but if someone really had a need for an async server, they wrote it in something else before. I'm not saying node.js is bad in any way, but there are more established alternatives in languages people already use. They were used before and they did the job. Is node.js going to be a temporary thing?... we'll see. Is it that different from what we already had? (compare http://github.com/jamwt/diesel/blob/master/examples/http.py http://github.com/jamwt/diesel/blob/master/examples/http.py and http://nodejs.org/api.html#synopsis-0 http://nodejs.org/api.html#synopsis-0 ) not really.