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Re:Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js by andrewvc on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:28AM (#3928803)
So, I googled 'finagle java' and all the results were terrible. There was no concise description with a short example. Nothing led me to believe 'node.js' clone in anything I saw in the first few results. In fact, the first result was this: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/08/finagle-protocol-agno...

"Protocol-agnostic RPC System" does not sound like a node clone at all.

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Re:Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js by Uchikoma on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:32AM (#3928819)
(as a side note, what do you think REST PUT calls over HTTP on Node are?)

Finagle is about composing async IO calls, e.g. here

http://twitter.github.com/scala_school/finagle.html

This works much better in Scala, as Java is not very good at composing Futures. It needs a lot of boiler plate code as it lacks noise free closures.

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