[Chicago] Threads vs async

[Adam "Cezar" Jenkins]

JS catches on easily in web development because it's already a common
denominator among web developers. We all should know html/js so in a way it
simplified the number of languages you need to use.

My problem with it is that it sides wrongly. You have three "languages" or
domains of knowledge going on. Html, JS, and Python. You drop one and go
with JS for the server side. I think you've dropped the best one of the
bunch.

Google is doing some work to make the client programming model better, with
Dart and what not. I hope they succeed. At the very least I would like to
see JS become the byte code of browser side programming so I can code in
whatever and compile it down. I know there is some work and even success in
that area, but I know it's not common place yet.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Daniel Griffin <dgriff1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is based upon pretty much nothing but you have to figure that threads
> vs async in a typical language is going to boil down to pretty much the
> same stuff at the kernel/OS level.
>
> Also, Node is pretty cool but people treat it like it's some brand new
> amazing idea when it's anything but.
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
> emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I lost it when he went into the 2 minute comparison of node.js to a 19th
>> century gothic horror plot.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Garrett Smith <g at rre.tt> wrote:
>>
>>> This video is born of the fine moments we've shared exploring the
>>> fallacies of asynchronous programming.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
>>>
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