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Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by eropple on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @01:50PM (#3949684)
> Node is a joy to use because of the NPM, and all the available libraries. I'd hate to lose that.

Maven's not bad at all (from a consumption perspective--from a dev perspective, it's a bit of a pain in the ass), and it looks like pretty much any Java library that doesn't do anything too insane should work just fine. (Disclaimer: never used vert.x myself, but I did a quick scan of the code.)

Re:Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results by manuscreationis on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @03:43PM (#3950137)
Cool, thanks for the tip