If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
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If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
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Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#2I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I see node.js as being "disruptive":
* It's "not as good" as languages/environments like Erlang.
* But it's good enough, and significantly simpler, as an approach to tackle a certain class of problems. This, combined with widespread knowledge of Javascript, will probably make it fairly widely used.
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#3You're just using it wrong
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#4Best thing I've read all day. lol.
Node looks great for insanely high connection count / non blocking messaging apps but for nearly everything else it looks like a square peg in a round hole.
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#5If you're using [your fav framework], you're doing life right.
Just use it and see if it works out for you.
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Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#7All the points that OP mentioned, whether they are correct or not, are irrelavent.
The only factor that drives technology success is the people, aka the community. There are a lot of people on board of nodejs. This just creates more gravity and pulls more people toward it. Together, the community will carry the momentum that drives its success. If v8 is not server technology like OP said, there are enough open source developers to make its on fork.
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#8It seems to me like the author overly cares about languages, when the power of Node is the community and its simplicity of use - there's very little boilerplate even for complex things like network programming.
Who cares about the language. Use JS if you want, or use Scala. At the end of the day is the maintainability of the product you're developing that matters.
I feel, for example, that NPM is much easier and simpler to use than something like Maven. If it makes my life easier, I'll stick with it.
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#9different tools for different jobs
Re: If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
#10If you get really angry about the choices other people make for their own work, you're doing life wrong.