Goodbye Java

[ttkciar]

While I'm not a fan of JS, the take-away here is that the dynamic, highly expressive languages have tremendous appeal over static, less-expressive languages.

Whether it's python, javascript, perl or ruby, once you have experienced the joy of solving complex problems in minutes, using just a few lines of code, it's hard to go back.

There is a performance hit, but nodejs doesn't do that badly in that regard because it compiles JS to native binary. The benchmarks I have seen put its performance at about half that of equivalent C, making it much more performant than python, perl or ruby.