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Node js is a surprisingly lightweight API layer for manipulating Linux IO

• mschuster91 3y ago
  The problem is that the NodeJS ecosystem infrastructure doesn't exactly like efficient programming - you have to go pretty much bare metal to actually be lightweight.
  • porsager 3y ago
    Or maybe NodeJS is just leveraged a lot for cases where this kind of performance isn't required. Doesn't mean it's not useful in scenarios where you do require it [1] [1] https://unetworkingab.medium.com/millions-of-active-websockets-with-node-js-7dc575746a01 https://unetworkingab.medium.com/millions-of-active-websocke...
  • zokier 3y ago
    > you have to go pretty much bare metal to actually be lightweight And yet here we are discussing WhatsApp which notably used Erlang, and I would not call BEAM particularly lightweight thing.
• londons_explore 3y ago
  As long as you like having terribly restrictive threads....