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Your point is taken although I wouldn't say Node qualifies as the latest trend at this point. It feels like it has moved on to "just another tool to choose from

• rumanator 7y ago
  > Your point is taken although I wouldn't say Node qualifies as the latest trend at this point. Honest question: does Node offer any advantage other than CV points wrt established backend tech stacks?
  • BubRoss 7y ago
    Javascript is a flexible and fluid language in my opinion. Using modern JITs gets you a scripting language that is many times faster than other languages, but Node.js itself is based around async callbacks for the simplest stuff with no easy way out, which makes it worth avoiding. Lua JIT however is sane, simple and even faster, but the infrastructure and tools surrounding it are bare in comparison.
    • edwinjm 7y ago
      "but Node.js itself is based around async callbacks for the simplest stuff with no easy way out, which makes it worth avoiding". Huh? Async code is so powerful. You can use promises instead of callbacks. And you can easily make a async call "synchronous" by adding the await keyword in front of it.
      • _lacroix 7y ago
        It's not that other languages don't have async code...they just do it using multiple threads or other patterns that are nicer to work with than JS.