PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects

Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by cel1ne on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:33AM (#12759539)

I hope you don't mean the JVM by "the cumbersome part". It think is unparalleled in performance, garbage-collection, general dev-ops and monitoring capabilities.

You can run many different languages on it, all nicely contained within the virtual machine.

As far as I know Twitter replaced their Ruby/Rails with Code on top of the JVM for these reasons.

Also I don't think it's good to religiously stick to async/"just one thread" and sync/"one thread for everything". The most performant answer depends on the real world scenario and almost always lies somewhere in between.

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Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by boggydepot on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:24AM (#12759787)

I think he meant the js not java. Question about node js, So async model is the good part, js is the bad part, why use js then?

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Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by my123 on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:35AM (#12759856)

The JVM is nowhere near as flexible as the CLR.

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Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by cel1ne on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:03AM (#12760031)

The JVM probably lags behind in some aspects. But it's ecosystem is way larger and not biased towards Windows.

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Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by peterashford on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:44AM (#12772473)

In what way?

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Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects by my123 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:19AM (#12773665)

The CLR can be used to run C++ code compiled with the C++/CLI (/clr:pure) setting of MSVC. Java apps can even run on the CLR because of IKVM (https://www.nuget.org/packages/IKVM).

Good luck at using pointers in Java.

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