> I'm just confused as to why anyone is particularly impressed with Node or JS.
Low barrier to entry means anyone who used to animate jumping monkeys on webpages and now write distributed back-end systems (all web-scale of course).
Kids haven't seen anything else. Maybe took C++ or Java in college, then they see a kid with piercings and a messenger bag and tight pants talk about this awesome asynchronous callback-futures-based awesome frameworks. There is really nothing to compare it to. So they are impressed.
Next level up, write a benchmark. Compute fibonacci, compare with Java, hey not too bad. Even faster than Ruby! Clearly this is the framework of the future.
Maybe read some place about how threads are bad and callbacks are great. And so on.
> so you end up with 300-character deep paths.
Hehe, too funny. Actually it just needs to be 260 characters, so 'git checkout blows' up on your unfortunate colleague who happens to use Windows.
=> Low barrier to entry means anyone who used to animate jumping monkeys on webpages and now write distributed back-end systems (all web-scale of course).
There is nothing distributed about Node. It has IO concurrency, that is all.
Low barrier to entry means anyone who used to animate jumping monkeys on webpages and now write distributed back-end systems (all web-scale of course).
Kids haven't seen anything else. Maybe took C++ or Java in college, then they see a kid with piercings and a messenger bag and tight pants talk about this awesome asynchronous callback-futures-based awesome frameworks. There is really nothing to compare it to. So they are impressed.
Next level up, write a benchmark. Compute fibonacci, compare with Java, hey not too bad. Even faster than Ruby! Clearly this is the framework of the future.
Maybe read some place about how threads are bad and callbacks are great. And so on.
> so you end up with 300-character deep paths.
Hehe, too funny. Actually it just needs to be 260 characters, so 'git checkout blows' up on your unfortunate colleague who happens to use Windows.