How are we defining aggression? To me, the same 5 people offering the same answer on every related thread, representing nearly 60% of the traffic in that thread, for an approach that has by any available measure less than 2% of the community adopting it is **very aggressive**.
-Mikeal On Apr 12, 2012, at April 12, 20121:33 PM, Marco Rogers wrote: > Thanks for the backhanded support Axel :) > > Since when can we not make general statements once they've proven themselves > to be generally true? How would we ever have best practices if nothing ever > presented itself as best in the general sense? > > :Marco > > On Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:48:13 AM UTC-7, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > > JavaScript is asynchronous, Node.js is asynchronous, everything feels > > natural (and fibers don't). > "Everything feels natural"... now thats a scientific argument how > something "feels"? > > I wont go in this benchmark gaggle, but I agree with Marco Roger, the > level of agression from the sync-haters is ridiculous. And both sides > eider gaggle around benchmarks, or throw in baseless general > statements like: "When you create an abstraction layer, it's almost > always slower.". Thats an argument in 2012? Haven't decades of > compilers and optimizers tought us (I'm looking at the Assembler vs. C > arguments back in the 1970s-1980s) that eventually a compiler/optimize > can work way beyond human abilities to micro-optimize things, and we'd > rather work on a higher level developing solutions instead of dealing > with the minuscule things how the electrons are moved around in the > most efficient way? > > So please everybody get a cool head. Syncs are not going to kill you, > neither is anybody going to be forced to use them, neither is async > everything that uber cool what you think it is, neither is it not > going to change the live of everybody. > > > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
