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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by LordHumungous on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:37AM (#6467988)
When I'm creating the flight control system for my moon rocket I'll use some more advanced hardware. For 99% of the things I might use this for, Javascript will be fine.
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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by kybernetyk on Monday September 30, 2013 @04:07AM (#6468336)
"Oh, the left thruster fired 4ms too late because an interrupt stopped the control.js program. Now our rocket is lost."

It's not about bandwidth. It's about latency.

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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by aaronem on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:45PM (#6472586)
"Oh, my room lights lit up 4ms too late because an interrupt &c., &c."

No one is even suggesting that Node is a suitable substrate on which to build, for example, a flight control system, and reduction to absurdity does nothing to improve your argument.

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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by kybernetyk on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @07:47AM (#6475482)
> No one is even suggesting

No one except parent.

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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by boomlinde on Thursday October 03, 2013 @02:20AM (#6487480)
read again
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