Oh, come on. JavaScript doesn’t mean pages take 500ms to load. On my Node.js-powered server [1], pages take a handful of ms, and they only take that long becaus

Oh, come on. JavaScript doesn’t mean pages take 500ms to load. On my Node.js-powered server [1], pages take a handful of ms, and they only take that long because I’m doing a lot of sophisticated content management. JavaScript has got some rough spots, but it’s a fine language these days, with a nice multi paradigm support. [1] jamesshore.com or letscodejavascript.com — they both run on the same servers.