I'm not saying they don't have their advantages. I want to be clear about that. But for most web apps, the limitations probably outnumber the benefits. Especially since the stateless nature of most web apps allow for easy horizontal scaling, thus negating the performance advantage.
As for performance, it really is amazing how fast node.js is. It's like a slow static language rather than a fast dynamic language (by that I mean, the gap between it and Java is smaller than the gab between it and Python). I don't know why that is, but I hope every dynamic language has that potential and that someone manages to unlock it.
As for performance, it really is amazing how fast node.js is. It's like a slow static language rather than a fast dynamic language (by that I mean, the gap between it and Java is smaller than the gab between it and Python). I don't know why that is, but I hope every dynamic language has that potential and that someone manages to unlock it.