There's no good reason to use Nodejs

Re:There's no good reason to use Nodejs by ztratar on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:52AM (#14306180)

You make quite a claim, and then only discuss speed and throughput.

App boxes are usually pretty easy to scale up (and cheap). The efficiency of your app layer in terms of I/O is very rare the bottleneck for a scaled application.

The best reasons to use Node.js: - Single language for FE and Backend. Easier to recruit and build things. - Much faster to build things, on average, than in Go (or especially C++)

I'm not saying it's great, or better than Go/Rust/etc. It has obvious weaknesses, but to say "There's no good reason" is to only view development from one perspective.

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Re:There's no good reason to use Nodejs by contenttypegeek on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:58AM (#14306195)

Oh, I'm neither the author nor do I necessary agree with all the conclusions, just ran into this article on twitter and wanted to see what HN thinks grabs popcorn style and all ;)

Sound like the 2017 version of "Rails doesn't scale" - obviously you can make EVERYTHING scale.

Plus, saying 'never' in a programming context is never a good idea...

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