* Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de> [2012-04-10 05:57:52 +0200]: > Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:50:32 +1200 > schrieb James Miller <ja...@aatch.net>: > > > Slightly OT: With the unstoppable march of parallel programming, does > > anybody else find node.js incredibly infuriating, since it is > > single-core. > > Don't blame the library. EcmaScript was designed to be single-core. I imagine > that web scripting language to be much more complex with multi-threading in > user code. You are using the wrong tool for the job ;) > > -- > Marco >
I meant that the fact that node.js is gaining popularity, despite the fact that we want to move away from single-threaded applications, is incredibly backwards. I'm not using node, I have to use PHP at work, which at the very least gets help from the webserver in terms of parallel processing. -- James Miller