Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
by xmprt on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:49AM
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I think you feel that way because you're comparing Node to Python. Neither of them are particularly good languages for servers. Languages like Go and Java/Kotlin are much better when you're building complicated systems that need to be performant and reliable.
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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:48AM
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Hard disagree on Node (at least if you're using Typescript) not being a good server language, and I say this as someone who was a Java dev for the first 15 years of my career. I've seen more performance nightmares with Java compared to a well-written Node server, though Java has improved a ton in recent years with things like virtual threads and the community has generally seen the error of the unnecessary AbstractFactoryBuilderGenerator shit that was so common for a long time in Java.
Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
by physicsguy on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:31AM
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Go is not the best for ML and scientific applications in my experience. Orchestration is fine but the libraries just aren’t there, Gonum alone is way behind NumPy/SciPy