Date: 23 Mar 2020 16:43:10 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: ihor@antonovs.family Subject: Re: NodeJS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20200323204311.2DF05166C7B0@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <20200323201527.yeae67icceifel6d@sea-ll-10936>
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In article <20200323201527.yeae67icceifel6d@sea-ll-10936> you write: >I with you on that. I believe NodeJS/Javascript is a dead-end branch of computing >evolution and I hate it with burning passion. ... I doubt it. Its transaction model is essentially that of the SABRE airline reservation system from 1960 which borrowed it from the SAGE air defense system that ran on vacuum tube computers in the 1950s. If you have a lot of transactions and want high performance, it's the only design that has stood the test of time. I agree it's not much fun to program unless you have that kind of mind, which most people don't. R's, John
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