Re:There's no good reason to use Nodejs
by yellowapple on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:44PM
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Wasn't this already posted a couple days ago? It got flagged then, too.
I dislike NodeJS as much as any other person, but comparing it to three AOT-compiled strongly-typed languages is a ridiculous criticism.
Of the three languages presented for comparison, Go is maybe a good call for the sort of web development in which NodeJS is used. Rust is marginal. C++ is absurd.
A better comparison would've been with other languages actually common in web backends (at least those that aren't maintained by masochists). Go could stay. Throw in Ruby and PHP and Perl and Erlang. See how things really do compare.
I dislike NodeJS as much as any other person, but comparing it to three AOT-compiled strongly-typed languages is a ridiculous criticism.
Of the three languages presented for comparison, Go is maybe a good call for the sort of web development in which NodeJS is used. Rust is marginal. C++ is absurd.
A better comparison would've been with other languages actually common in web backends (at least those that aren't maintained by masochists). Go could stay. Throw in Ruby and PHP and Perl and Erlang. See how things really do compare.