Re:Node.js cures cancer
by pork on Monday October 03, 2011 @03:26AM
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um...the whole thing with asynchronous event-based processing is that you can (ideally) dispense with threads for many use cases.
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You will have to do more of it, of course.
In a classic thread-based system, it's okay if a single page takes a bit longer (e.g. >1 sec) to render if it's within your user's line of expectation.
You can't do that here because you'll block all the others.
But any decent developers knows that, so he takes the advantages Node.js offers and fixes the disadvantages that come along with it. Big deal.
Is this discussion really only about the scalability tagline? Some taglines are misleading, really?