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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by spion on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:36PM (#11624433)
Okay. I've had vastly different experience with node on ARM. Much more reasonable dependencies size then what you report (by about 2 orders of magnitude) and excellent performance from the JIT. Combined with the ability to first write dynamic code then switch to static types, as well as the memory safety, its been a lot more pleasant than working with C.

So honestly, I really can't relate to most of what you said here :)

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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by Silhouette on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:38PM (#11625100)
Please keep in mind that the Raspberry Pi was only an example. We're talking about embedded here, so there are all kinds of weird and wonderful CPUs and storage systems and I/O components being used in various devices that need to run the code I'm talking about. Certainly not all of them were ARM chips. I don't know which chips caused the big problems with porting Node, nor which specific packages, so it's entirely possible that whatever you've worked on was closer to the mainstream and supported just fine.
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