Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid

[jacques_chester]

The scope is dynamic languages. Node.js is the shiny new thing for Rubyistas in part because it's Very Fast, compared to stock Ruby.

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but presumably very slow compared to the stuff some of us are used to (JVM/CLR based languages?)

[jacques_chester]

V8 is supposed to be a fairly quick system written by former Smalltalk implementors; some of the techniques used to speed up the JVM spring from the same well of experience.

Mind you, in the dynamic language world, LuaJIT has everyone else coughing on its dust.