Re:If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
by mnutt on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:23PM
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I don't think it even starts off strong with the bug counts. That wasn't node, but using Chrome/v8 directly to parse web pages for their web crawler. I'm not the least bit surprised that parsing unfiltered HTML from the internet dominates their bug count.
I also won't be surprised if their rewritten scala HTML parser also dominates the bug counts.
Re:If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
by nephics on Friday February 03, 2012 @12:34PM
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Unfortunately, this way of stating unqualified arguments as basis for reasoning is quite prevalent on the Internet.
Keeping it to node.js bashing, this guy takes the discussion to a slightly lower level: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zzna-dNw
Re:If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
by highace on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:16PM
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Ha, I liked that. But slagging aside, are the points he makes baseless?
Re:If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
by AdrianRossouw on Friday February 03, 2012 @01:25PM
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How is that lower level ?
He tries to discredit node by taking apart the copy on the front page of nodejs.org.
It's all conjecture and ad hominem.
It starts off strong talking about a high bug count, but never gets into specifics there.
As far as scaling across cores goes, it's disingenuous to suggest that node can't do this, there are a number of options here. Message passing, for instance, does indeed work.
As far as nested callbacks sucking, I totally agree. But a walk through why would add a lot more substance here as well.