On Oct 19, 10:23 am, Jerome Covington <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I've been on a Mac for years. Am I likely to encounter any pitfalls or
> gotchas doing node dev on Windows?

>From my personal experience, I have seen significant performance
decreases in node on Windows compared to *nix. However if you just use
node for development purposes on Windows, you should be fine.

> A buddy of mine reminded me that some of the add ons require a C compiler.
> What are my options?

Visual C++ 2010 Express is free and is your best bet for now for
compiling addons.

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