Hi, I've been a C#/asp.net dev since the first beta. 2 years ago I started with node.
Some pros over C#/asp.net: - Free software - Not married with VS or another ide - Same language, client and server. - Npm, npm, npm! - Great community Cons ¿? El martes, 3 de julio de 2012 19:56:17 UTC+2, Justin Collum escribió: > > Had a discussion with a friend about Nodejs the other day. We are both C# > / MVC / ASP.NET devs, with about 10 years experience. He asked me why > someone would choose Nodejs over IIS + MVC . My argument was 1) > performance 2) non-blocking IO. Keep in mind that I don't know a lot about > node, I've built one small site and that's it. So my argument in favor was > pretty short. > > His response: Well, if I need performance on IIS I can just bump up the > number of threads in the thread pool. Fair point. > > After looking into it a bit, it seems that the big difference between IIS > + MVC and Node is that each thread can do more in the Node world because > of the non-blocking IO. This cuts down on context switching and makes for > better overall performance. Add that to the "one language to rule them all: > coffeescript" factor and it's a clear win to me. > > Is that a fair summary of the performance advantages of Nodejs over IIS + > MVC? Is there more to it? > > I'm aware that you can run Nodejs via IIS but my intuition tells me that > won't be a good fit. > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
