Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown
by mmaunder on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @05:45AM
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This comment was ranked 0 when I found it. It's exactly right. Startups are risky enough without having to hire a team of Lua developers. An async server that supports a mainstream language is awesome. Lua? No.
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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown
by ay on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:34AM
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In this case, you would be looking at PHP and Java, not node.js.
Last time I checked node.js and libraries for it (about a couple of months ago), I could not run the library I wanted on the latest version of the node.js because the API has completely changed.
Platform software that completely changes itself over a course of a couple of months ? Thanks but no thanks.
Disclaimer: It's been couple of months. Maybe the things have changed since then, will be grateful for an educational reply from someone who has used node.js, about its maintainability, especially for the use with third party libs.
Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown
by felixge on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:09AM
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Node's API was frozen with the 0.2.0 release (for most parts). Things were indeed very rocky before, but most libraries have been updated now and are unlikely to break again soon.
Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown
by rbranson on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:26AM
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It looks like the zealots got to you. I agree partially with what you're saying. Node.js is still a somewhat immature platform, but people are generally building small, single-purpose servers with it, not replacing their entire infrastructure. I don't think anyone is advocating that.