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I'm not a C expert either but a lot of the system modules in Node appear to be simple JavaScript wrappers over their C counter-parts. I'm not sure if this is ne
by xhrpost 13y ago
I'm not a C expert either but a lot of the system modules in Node appear to be simple JavaScript wrappers over their C counter-parts. I'm not sure if this is necessarily a problem but rather the developers just didn't aim for a higher level of abstraction. I think they aimed for OS abstraction and stopped there for some of the modules.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoI definitely got the feeling from toying with node that you're working at a very low level, basically interfacing with system calls. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, but you have to understand that in order to know what you're doing. It's a curious experience to be using javascript on the one hand, and be doing extremely low-level systems programming on the other. It would be useful to have better documentation on exactly what those node functions do when you call them.