JavaScript Servers Compared 132
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner test-drives five leading JavaScript servers and finds the results compelling though still a work-in-progress. 'I enjoyed the challenge and stimulation of rethinking everything I know about the server, but I still found myself hesitant to push these new ideas too far or too fast. The speed of experimentation and development is heady and exciting to the open source crowd, but it will probably seem scary to corporate developers who like the long, stable lives of tools from Microsoft or Oracle. Some of these platforms will probably morph three or four times over the next few years, something that won't happen to the good, old JSP standard in the Java world,' Wayner writes in review of Node.js, Jaxer, EJScript, RingoJS, and AppengineJS."
Second post! (Score:4, Funny)
Third post (Score:3, Funny)
Third post! Would've been first if slashdot had a faster javascript server.
First post! (Score:2, Funny)
First post! Good thing slashdot has a fast javascript server.
You are a renegade. (Score:5, Funny)
Remember when javascript had a terrible rep? Then people were all like, "No! It's totally awesome! It has first-class functions and prototypal inheritance!" Yeah, you remember. You read all the blogs. You had flashbacks to your not-so-pleasant encounters with javascript while developing client-side web applications. Then, all the sudden, prototypal inheritance became the in-thing, like popped collars. No matter how ugly or ridiculous it looked, you didn't want to be the only one who didn't think it was cool. You started writing gobs of hard to organize, impossible to refactor serverside javascript code. You convinced yourself, somehow, that you saved time by not having to issue some "compile" command. No, it just starts, DYNAMICALLY! What a cool word, dynamic -- like Ugg boots! And like wearing Ugg boots in the summertime, you tortured yourself searching for simple runtime errors. Static checking? Compiling? These are the things of white-collared enterprise folks.
You are not a white collared enterprise guy. You are a renegade. With a popped-collar. And ugg boots.