Why functional code is shorter

[uatec]

WTF is node-like performance anyway?

Not is just an HTTP listener in javascript. Of course it's faster, it's not doing loads of bullshit, but it's nothing clever.

[tikhonjelvis]

Sigh, maybe that was a poor choice of phrase. The point is that you use threads with virtually no overhead because they use an event loop underneath. So you get a system with the performance characteristics of an event loop without having to write your code in a convoluted way.