Sunday, August 22, 2021

GoLang vs node.js (4 years later)

 On Node.js, Go and concurrency

"Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, said the following while he was talking about Node's concurrency model:

[...] I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would use Go for that. And honestly, that’s the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server-side system ever." (in 2017)

Episode 8: Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js - Mapping The Journey


Todd McLeod on Twitter: "The creator of #Nodejs has abandoned node in favor of #Golang @nodejs @golang (1) https://t.co/mxcnKpPIRy (2) https://t.co/xuLCgaOsJI https://t.co/uXDK2tNhCz" / Twitter

How to Code: Learn Google's Go (golang) Programming Language | Udemy 

by Todd McLeod | Tenured College Professor | Udemy

Course Outline


Ryan Dahl - Wikipedia

he ended up creating Deno, by using Rust language and based on TypeScript, that compiles to JavaScript running on V8, same as node.js

Deno (software) - Wikipedia