To summarise: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html :-)
—ravi, don’t know a thing about Erlang, actually
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Vitaliy Feoktistov
> <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
>
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