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But what about afterwards? You move to a more performant language or just accept that you're now invested in JS?
by kalaksi 2y ago
But what about afterwards? You move to a more performant language or just accept that you're now invested in JS?
- andrewaylett 2y agoOne or the other, probably — Facebook were sufficiently invested in PHP that they released a whole new VM for the language. In Python, one would relatively commonly extract the performance-critical sections into C (or, nowadays, Rust) and you could do the same with Node too. Or the JIT might be fast enough that it's not worthwhile.