Re:Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not mac...
by cutler on Sunday January 19, 2020 @06:18PM
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Doesn't this kinda prove the point that Node.js is only more performant when used with micro-frameworks like Express? That Sails failed to match Rails should tell you something. A fair comparison with Express would be something like Grape or Rhoda. Node.js itself should be compared with Rack which is pretty fast.
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Re:Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not mac...
by JMTQp8lwXL on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:04PM
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The fact that Sails never caught on to match or exceed Rails usage doesn't mean the main problem was primarily performance. Rails, for one, has a huge incumbency advantage (2004). Second, Rails is just easier than throwing together a pile of NPM modules. Imagine if you had 0 knowledge of the NPM ecosystem. It'd be quite a lot of decision making to evaluate a basket of modules that could emulate all of what rails provides.
Re:Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not mac...
by petre on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:23AM
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Thworing together a pile of third party NPM modules is a bad decision anyway. This is precisely why we picked Mojolicious to use as a Perl web framework: minimal dependencies, minimal breakage, reimplements some functionality. It turned out to be a good decision as it's also actively maintained compared to the others.