Hi TJ. Your post did go through but the mailing list is now moderated. It prevents flame wars but it also means long delays, especially when posting from Europe.
Bruno On Monday, July 7, 2014 6:28:57 AM UTC+2, tjholowaychuk wrote: > > Weird apparently what I posted didn't work. Anyway I think it's a very odd > choice for a JavaScript platform to strive for performance over usability, > usability is the *only* reason you would ever go with JavaScript, because > people know it. It's a terrible choice of a language if you're shooting for > raw performance, and even worse is that you really shouldn't scale your > application based on raw performance. If you have to serve tons of requests > then you also have the money to spawn an machine or two, look at YouTube > even it uses Python and it's much larger than anything node has been used > for, it's really just not a concern these days. Startups should be > concerned with robustness, not raw performance that they don't even need. > > On Sunday, 6 July 2014 20:04:43 UTC-7, Chaoran Yang wrote: >> >> I think what TJ complained about Nodejs are valid points. However I also >> think Nodejs preference of performance over usability is not wrong. We need >> to understand the Nodejs is not the best choice for all web applications, >> just like C is not the best choice for programs. There are already loads of >> languages that favors usability, and Nodejs should not become one of them. >> Nodejs exists because it is different. It provides an alternative for those >> who cares about performance, and doesn't bother to get their hands dirty in >> low level details. >> >> I do agree with TJ with the fact that Streams are broken in Nodejs is >> becoming a problem. It should be a major help for simplifying asynchronous >> programming but it is still in unstable state now. >> >> Chaoran >> >> On Friday, July 4, 2014 10:40:25 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> TJ is leaving node as he posted here >>> https://medium.com/code-adventures/4ba9e7f3e52b >>> >>> What do you think about it and what projects are you using that came >>> from him? >>> >> -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/9f843e5c-0fad-4701-a28d-1effe9e6e7db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
