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You blame a client side programming language for data center power usage?

• cblconfederate 6y ago
  isnt it very popular server side too?
  • ronaldj 6y ago
    Sure. Do you know of any studies that analyze the power consumption of different languages on the backend? I'd be curious to see how they compare.
    • cblconfederate 6y ago
      seems there are a few, though not sure if their results are applicable to server-based programs https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-137264.html https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-... https://stefanos1316.github.io/my_curriculum_vitae/GKS17.pdf https://stefanos1316.github.io/my_curriculum_vitae/GKS17.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01496266/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01496266/document
  • loosescrews 6y ago
    I don't think Amazon, Google, or Facebook do on any significant scale.
  • mrep 6y ago
    Some teams may use it at the big companies and I myself have used lesser performant languages at some of the big companies but only for smaller stuff. For the widely used stuff which big companies do a lot of, you need high efficiency and javascript ain't gonna do that. One of my co workers worked on a 5 person project for half a year that just refactored a core algorithm for a heavily used product and that halved the 5 million dollars a year in hardware costs and that's not expensive public cloud cost but the highly efficient internal data center costs and all of the code was in C++. Writing any of that code in javascript would just be wasting money.