Re:Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space
by coldtea on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:09PM
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It might be easy to do that in a well written single C/C++ codebase like Redis.
It's not simple nor something devs will ever want or care to do in a big web app with several binary dependencies.
Just consider that a single Node app's binary deps could trivially include the entirety of Chrome itself, not just in the form of Node's v8 engine, but e.g. as the PDF rendering "headless chrome" wrapper Puppeteer.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, add DBs, extensions, Python backend scripts, etc etc, and few will bother.
It's not simple nor something devs will ever want or care to do in a big web app with several binary dependencies.
Just consider that a single Node app's binary deps could trivially include the entirety of Chrome itself, not just in the form of Node's v8 engine, but e.g. as the PDF rendering "headless chrome" wrapper Puppeteer.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, add DBs, extensions, Python backend scripts, etc etc, and few will bother.