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Sounds like I still don't want to use node, no one has decided on what resources to use.

• virmundi 14y ago
  If that is your criteria for using a tool, you're never going to move into anything new. For web development many are happy with Express. Sure they tend to use Mongo or some no-sql type storage, but that is due to novelty and the fact that the individuals writing the async drivers are into that right now. MySQL has support and it's increasing. Node's an interesting idea and should be given some room to grow. When done correctly it seems to scale well, especially on one box. To go back to the topic, look at Java. There are so many tools out there to do the same thing in the MVC space. Would you say that you won't use Java because people can figure out which tools to use? To me the benefit of Node and Java is that you are not tied to a particular engineering group's view of the world. You can plug in what you want. You can experiment and learn yourself. A monolithic stack might be good from the it just work's perspective (though I've never seen that to be true and I've programmed in C#), but it does tie you to a release schedule of the vendor.