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Parallel requests and async callbacks have been hallmarks of server programming for decades. You'd have to be pretty young to think this is novel. Good protoc
by inopinatus 15y ago
Parallel requests and async callbacks have been hallmarks of server programming for decades. You'd have to be pretty young to think this is novel. Good protocol library designers have always exposed some mechanism for kernel-assisted polling (such as the file descriptor for the TCP socket of an LDAP connection).
So, Node solves problems we've already solved, only now using the second most poorly designed common production language available today (first place is reserved for PHP).
- ricardobeat 15y agoRight, that's why most servers nowadays are written in this mystery platform that you failed to mention.
- inopinatus 15y agoC.
- ricardobeat 15y agoOh the irony...
- dmpk2k 15y agoWith that attitude we should have stopped at FORTRAN. What next, drive a Model T instead of a Civic? Nobody knowledgeable has said that async coding is novel. What matters is that node.js is a simple(r) and effective means of writing asynchronous applications.