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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with the tedium of programming? by M8 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:00AM (#9691141)
People look at e.g. Node.js and think it's a "new" "technology" or even in some cases "platform". In reality it's a well-known Reactor Pattern with some package management running on a not-very-slow virtual machine using exclusively a weakly typed dynamic language which takes years to update with features.
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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with the tedium of programming? by xyzzy123 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:02AM (#9692700)
And yet a vastly more productive environment than actually trying to get the same thing done in C++.

I've worked with two commercial C++ systems designed around the reactor pattern, so perhaps not an expert, but this is not a drive-by comment either.

The C++ projects I worked on ended up requiring extra little "threads on the side" to deal with stuff like sync DB drivers or closed source libs. Little inefficiencies added up to the point where we may as well have done the darn things in JS anyway.

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