Most of the tools we have use less than 100mb of ram - and a good number under 50mb. Point is, Node is pretty light for how fast you can build tools with it. A

Most of the tools we have use less than 100mb of ram - and a good number under 50mb. Point is, Node is pretty light for how fast you can build tools with it. All my co-workers have the same version of Node, since we code in Node, so that argument is mute. My point was it depends on your environment! :)