On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Vitaliy Feoktistov < [email protected]> wrote:
> - concurrency > Erlang is better, period. > - error tolerance > Erlang is better. > - performance > Node is significantly better based on the computer language shootout. > - scalability (scale-in, scale-out) > Erlang is better at scale-in. Neither are much different at scale-out. > - adapted for multi-CPU servers (openmp pool, cgroups mapping,..) > Erlang is better. Node relies on forking a process per CPU. > - adapted for mobile applications > I have no idea what this means. Neither are great at native apps on mobile (iOS and Android). Both are fine if you're just serving JSON. > - ease of programming > Node is way easier. The syntax is simpler and more familiar to the majority of programmers. > - integration with other languages (C/C++...) > Node is easier because it has FFI interfaces available. It's still a proposal to build something like that in Erlang. > - existance of libraries and developed code/projects > Node wins. Despite being decades younger. > - database integration (sql, nosql, in-memory) > Not sure about Erlang, but Node has everything pretty much covered. > - hire skills / price > It's far far FAR easier to find Javascript programmers. Erlang programmers will tell you that when you find an Erlang programmer they are generally a "10x" programmer. YMMV. Matt. -- 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/CAPJ5V2aH2--ZyHScNxv9MTuqVrdGu9FJzXscwR94izb0OcT9wA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
