> Language X Actually, comparing runtime/platform (Node) to language is completely pointless. Language is, well, only a language, it can't be "faster" or "slow

> Language X Actually, comparing runtime/platform (Node) to language is completely pointless. Language is, well, only a language, it can't be "faster" or "slower" unless we're talking about coding speed. We have to compare implementations. And even if we treat Java as a platform, contrary to Node it has ton of highly-varying implementations, so it's still pointless without careful clarifying what one compares. Or they may accidentally find out there's a Java variation with green threads somewhere that may break the whole "look, their ugly threads are slow and our event loops are fast" charm. The article is just a pure load of non-sense. Highly flammable, though.