On May 24, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Baz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm still getting the feeling that there is very little negative about doing
> this, and that mostly the negative feelings come from the fact that it's not
> the awesomest way of using node - rather than it actually being "bad". I'm
> not trying to compare awesome node to less awesome node, I'm trying to
> compare less awesome node to Java/Python/.net for a specific use-case.
There are a lot of performance measurements and benchmarks out there, these
days, that pit these languages (and the underlying frameworks) against each
other. Given that you wrote (IIRC) that you want to churn through a lot of
data, I assume performance is important to you. I haven’t seen any benchmark
where Python or other interpreted (or byte-intepreted) languages come in better
than JavaScript running on V8. Recently someone posted his measurement of
JavaScript parseInt() which fared poorly against a hand-coded version (again in
JS), so you may have to profile your code and watch for such quirks if they
exist.
Apart from that, and considerations of personal preferences w.r.t coding style,
I do not see anything that puts a general purpose high-level language (JS) with
a robust engine (v8) and a progressively strong framework (node) — not to
forget a lively community — at a disadvantage relative to others.
2 cents,
—ravi
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