donlebon's comments

On: Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes loc...

[donlebon]

Great! I am currently working in an Azure Devops project. We would definitely need such a tool!

On: Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and Jav...

[donlebon]

> Both Java and Node.js offer excellent performance, running counter to the myth that JavaScript is slow and therefore Node.js performance must be bad

> Node.js performance is riding the coattails of Google investment in V8 to speed up the Chrome browser

> The intense competition between browsers is making JavaScript more and more powerful every year, benefitting Node.js

Sounds ammmmazing! So JS is really damn fast and on a par with Java, right? But wait, are there any numbers?

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

Ouch.