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People use mongo and node because they want to get a site up really really fast and see if it gets traction. When they actually get somewhere they'll rewrite i
by narrator 12y ago
People use mongo and node because they want to get a site up really really fast and see if it gets traction. When they actually get somewhere they'll rewrite it in a better language.
If you want to set yourself up with really slick tooling and a great language you can code in Scala with Intellij. You can even avoid touching any ugly dynamically typed stuff by coding your JS in scala.js. If you're doing it better than the other guys then great, you can code rings around them. Maybe it's not worth all the extra complexity when just starting out though.
When you get to big corp size code bases static languages are more common. That's because to be able to navigate and maintain that big of a code base, a good IDE, a static typing compiler and refactoring tools are a huge help.
- edejong 12y agoThe interesting thing is that all these big-corp code-bases started out relatively small. The origins were actually able to overcome the complexity-wall that arises when a product is successful.
- falcolas 12y ago> When they actually get somewhere they'll rewrite it in a better language. Anecdata for you: Not necessairly. I'm working for a company which has "actually gotten somewhere", and our development team is still writing in Node with Mongo. Of course, there is a reason for it, the front end development team has spare cycles, and the backend team does not. Ergo, Node!
- alxndr 12y agoI'm inclined to repurpose a cliche, and say that now your backend team has two problems!