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They probably already had some decent experience with Node and it solved their initial problem well enough, refactoring or rewriting costs usually make engineer
by caiobegotti 7y ago
They probably already had some decent experience with Node and it solved their initial problem well enough, refactoring or rewriting costs usually make engineering managers frown upon (wrongfully) and so it becomes much harder to fix this in the long term.
- hatch_q 7y agoI have experience with node, am frontend developer... but would never in wildest dreams use Node for any kind of production backend. And it's not even the question of programming language - the problem is NPM and whole package management which is inherently insecure.