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This comment was ranked 0 when I found it. It's exactly right. Startups are risky enough without having to hire a team of Lua developers. An async server that s
by mmaunder 16y ago
This comment was ranked 0 when I found it. It's exactly right. Startups are risky enough without having to hire a team of Lua developers. An async server that supports a mainstream language is awesome. Lua? No.
- ay 16y agoIn this case, you would be looking at PHP and Java, not node.js. Last time I checked node.js and libraries for it (about a couple of months ago), I could not run the library I wanted on the latest version of the node.js because the API has completely changed. Platform software that completely changes itself over a course of a couple of months ? Thanks but no thanks. Disclaimer: It's been couple of months. Maybe the things have changed since then, will be grateful for an educational reply from someone who has used node.js, about its maintainability, especially for the use with third party libs.
- felixge 16y agoNode's API was frozen with the 0.2.0 release (for most parts). Things were indeed very rocky before, but most libraries have been updated now and are unlikely to break again soon.
- rbranson 16y agoIt looks like the zealots got to you. I agree partially with what you're saying. Node.js is still a somewhat immature platform, but people are generally building small, single-purpose servers with it, not replacing their entire infrastructure. I don't think anyone is advocating that.