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Re:Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go by aaron-lebo on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:07AM (#15650781)
Discourse is a Rails forum with a JS frontend. It's bloated. I don't disagree with your PHP experiences, you're extrapolating from:

1) your personal experience

2) mature software vs immature software

3) bad software vs good software

You can't say you're "not interested" in understanding the other side, throw out your own anecdotal benchmarks, draw conclusions from that, and then demand that others provide "non-synthetic" benchmarks in order to prove you wrong. Well, you can, but it doesn't seem especially objective.

Re:Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go by zaarn on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:13AM (#15650806)
Then please, show me a performant NodeJS webapp that works with noscript and slow dialup.

There is not much personal experience about that since it's a simple on/off comparison. Either it works without scripts on dialup or it doesn't.

Re:Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go by positivecomment on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:09AM (#15651029)
Here is one:

https://nodejs.org/en/about/

My point is, you can write any kind of app with almost any kind of server-side tech. If you don't like the culture, you may be right, but please be explicit about it.