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1. Toothpaste Pony!

   nodejs is amazing. >_> !coderpony

   Thursday, 30-Aug-12 20:37:19 UTC from web
   1. Bit Shift

      @minti Node is really neat (it takes javascript's strengths and builds on them to make them even stronger), but it's also a victim of its own success, in that it now has quite a number of evangelists who are convinced it's [i]the one true solution[/i] to all scalability and/or web development problems.

      Thursday, 30-Aug-12 20:39:51 UTC from web
      1. Toothpaste Pony!

         @bitshift True that. It comes with all the inherent problems of Javascript too. Toksy (maybe? Could have been any of the coderponies really.) pointed me towards an article that showed nodes flaws, and one that really surprised me was that it took almost 50 seconds (?!) to calculate the 100th Fibonacci number using recursion. :/

         Thursday, 30-Aug-12 20:43:01 UTC from web
         1. Bit Shift

            @minti In fairness, the problem with that article is that using an architecture built with a focus on concurrent IO for fibonacci calculation is a bad starting idea. Which is not to say that it's not a nasty flaw, but it's a flaw in an area where you shouldn't even be using node in the first place.

            Thursday, 30-Aug-12 20:45:42 UTC from web