• locuester@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    NodeJS is worse. One dude just had to write a cli based JavaScript runtime and holy hell now entire backends run on the least performant runtime possible.

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      9 hours ago

      You can bash the Javascript language all you want, but don’t come for its performance lol. Nodejs was very fast across the board when it came out, and still beats most scripting languages. Even some bigger runtimes in IO.

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        5 hours ago

        Its performance as a backend server is abysmal compared to standard compiled languages.

        It’s absolutely wasteful to use it.

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          4 hours ago

          The reality is that most backends don’t use compiled languages, but stuff like PHP, Java and Python.

          NodeJS scores very high on performance, concurrency, and especially IO, in that category.

          And calling it abysmal compared to compiled languages is not fair, but yes, there are much better alternatives.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, and all because god forbid you give your (future) employees time to learn another language besides JavaScript. Nope, line must go up so programming must be further commodified.