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Why isn't it written in Node.js?

• mahmud 14y ago
  Poe's law?
• eksith 14y ago
  After careful consideration, as the article mentions, ISC decided a combination of C++ and Python as being more appropriate to the goals of the project. That being safety, stability, established familiarity, speed and of course a level of guaranteed future-proof platform availability. Read: "This is one of the cornerstones of the internet that we didn't want to piss away on novelty". That sounded rude, and I'm sorry for that, but I don't know how else to make that point cogent.
  • afandian 14y ago
    I think it was a joke.
• zx2c4 14y ago
  obvious troll is obvious
• army 14y ago
  Because the performance would be so totally awesome that it would melt the servers. And we don't want the internet to melt.