Streams for example aren't part of v8. On Sunday, 20 July 2014 06:19:49 UTC+4, Phoscur wrote: > > Aren't we just speeding on the work of the V8 team? NodeJS just leverages > a low level API to that beast (and that's why there are callbacks, they are > low level function blocks in javascript. > So it's not about performance and Callbacks.. > > Where exactly are the usability leaks? > > TJ thank you for your great frameworks like express, socket.io & co! > > Ph > > Am 07.07.2014 06:28, schrieb tjholowaychuk: > > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/8bfb84c3-60ae-4848-8fce-deae4f6367d8%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/8bfb84c3-60ae-4848-8fce-deae4f6367d8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >
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