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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regr... by flexd on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @11:05AM (#17498701)
So the whole problem could have been avoided if you had chosen a more mature programming language at the time time? Perl, Python and PHP all had perfectly good SQL libraries at the time, as well as a lot of other languages that have been around a long time.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regr... by kevinoid on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @11:37AM (#17498998)
That's a fair criticism. There are a lot of tradeoffs in language choice. For this project the choice was out of my hands, but in retrospect I don't think Node was necessarily a bad choice. Node worked well for a lot of things we did. Was the cost spent struggling with SQL outweighed by the other benefits? It's hard to say for sure.
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