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mercurial on Feb 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we built the new BBC Homepage

I must confess I'm quite surprised that they would get more performance out of NodeJS than with a decent Java framework. Java has its problems, but it's usually fast.

hokay on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

They do mention prototyping with Scala and Clojure. I also doubt NodeJS beat the JVM out and out in performance. Maybe they went with Node because it is easier to hire web developers that know javascript than it is to hire web developers with knowledge of the JVM

mercurial on Feb 18, 2015 | [–]

Java developers are not exactly a scarce commodity.

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