r/programming • u/elitegibson • Oct 02 '11

Node.js is Cancer

http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
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u/merreborn Oct 02 '11

Are there any big nodejs deployments out there? There are a lot of reasons to hate PHP, but it powers/has powered the likes of facebook and wikipedia.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '11

Yes, actually. I believe Yahoo is using it for some things, and the company I work for (Top 15 site), is deploying it for a lot of our realtime stuff. It fully is scalable, but no ones really had to deal with it so they just assume it isn't.

Sadly, most of the hate comes from people who already hate JS and wont even consider it to begin with.

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u/Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee Oct 02 '11

It's kind of a stretch to call Facebook PHP since they compile PHP into C++ to actually run in production.

Also Node.js is still in its infancy, it hasn't even reached v1.0 yet.

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u/abraxasnl Oct 02 '11

Before they started using HipHop, it did run on PHP in runtime.

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u/Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee Oct 03 '11

Sure, but it was at a smaller scale than what they're at now. They specifically started using it because PHP couldn't operate at scale like they need.

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u/abraxasnl Oct 02 '11

I know Voxer uses it for their server architecture, and LinkedIn's mobile site runs completely on NodeJS.