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Comment by aegiso

This thing is dead on arrival. Unless I'm mistaken it's not open source, so the main draw of node (unrestrained hackability -- see npm) goes out the window.

The touted benefit is marginally increased parallel performance, but even if you buy this (I don't), the best case scenario is this buys you a slightly decreased server bill for the price of closedness, lock-in, and compatibility headaches. If your code shards horizontally like this then you can already trivially parallelize and shard across servers with first-class node core clustering.

I spend most of my waking hours writing all sorts of crazy things in node, and I still can't think of any scenario in which using this makes sense.

parent aegiso 12 years ago

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