Re:Build your own web framework
by tannhaeuser on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:33PM
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> Async is rather useless on the server side [...] its success was due to [...] a generation of front-end-centric developers [who] didn't realize [...] that better options already existed
You'd be wrong, again. According to Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js [1]:
> I think the combination of Chris Neukirchen’s rack plus how Nginx structured its web server with non-blocking IO led me to start thinking about how those two things could be combined. [...] So, when V8 came out, I started poking around with it, and it looked fascinating [...] and suddenly, I clicked that: oh! Javascript is single-threaded, and everybody is already doing non-blocking. [...] I think JavaScript plus asynchronous IO plus some HTTP server stuff would be a cool thing. And I was so excited about that idea that I just worked on it non-stop for the next four years.
You'd be wrong, again. According to Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js [1]:
> I think the combination of Chris Neukirchen’s rack plus how Nginx structured its web server with non-blocking IO led me to start thinking about how those two things could be combined. [...] So, when V8 came out, I started poking around with it, and it looked fascinating [...] and suddenly, I clicked that: oh! Javascript is single-threaded, and everybody is already doing non-blocking. [...] I think JavaScript plus asynchronous IO plus some HTTP server stuff would be a cool thing. And I was so excited about that idea that I just worked on it non-stop for the next four years.
[1]: https://mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/episode...