Jer Warren
Unpopular opinion: being able to put a really efficient nginx cache in front of slow resources is not a valid excuse to continue building really slow resources. [cough] nodejs [cough]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Jul 31, 2023 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadBlake Leonard Jul 31, 2023
@nyquildotorg it's either node or python, they're both hella inefficient but one has markup and the other doesn't
Show threadJer WarrenJul 31, 2023
@BlakeL I called out node specifically because putting a single-threaded scripting language designed for interacting with nodes in a DOM on a server where there are no nodes or DOMs is way more masochistic. At least python was meant to run outside a browser...