Very well stated ravi! I agree with this. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:42 AM, // ravi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Tushar Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am about to write an article on what is Node.js and why it is gaining so > much popularity in the tech community and the market place. Of course I > have tried my best to explain the worth of Node on grounds of the mentioned > points. As this is the most active community of node I have found so far, I > thought to intake your opinions regarding Node. > > I have a somewhat idiosyncratic take on the popularity of Node: Setting > aside the advantage of a single client/server programming language > (JavaScript), I believe Node’s success/popularity is (among other things) > because of a cyclical event in software development: ever growing > complexity (of abstractions, frameworks, etc) and an ensuing “reformation” > that gains traction as the the complex systems impose greater and greater > entrance penalties. To learn and write a Node app requires much lesser > effort and philosophical (framework, “pattern”, methodology) commitment > than with other platforms (and languages). While I may be pilloried for > this, I think of NodeJS as the Perl of the 2010s. > > Feel free to give your opinions on why Node is important now a days( or it > lacks something that makes it a bad choice for some specific domain). > > Again, idiosyncratic: I think Node is important because it returns control > back to the programmer (as described above). When I say Node, I mean the > entire ecosystem: npm, Express, so on. > > —ravi > -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc. -- 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/CAFfRWnXy-G3jK29sAtH7ESPnt4gnRz9MCHbs9f_kd-dMJtDpCA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
