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Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js?

Posted by EditorDavid on from the JavaScript-on-the-server dept.

A developer maintaining his company's "half-assed LAMP / WordPress stack pipeline for web and web application development" is considering something more scalable that could eventually be migrated into the cloud. Qbertino asks Slashdot: Have you moved from LAMP (PHP) to Node.js for custom product development and if so, what's your advice? What downsides of JS on the server and in Node.js have a real-world effect? Is callback hell really a thing? And what is the state of free and open-source Node products...? Is there any trend inside the Node.js camp on building a platform and CMS product that competes with the PHP camp whilst maintaining a sane architecture, or is it all just a ball of hype with a huge mess of its own growing in the background, Rails-style?
Condensing Qbertino's original submission: he wants to be able to quickly deliver "pretty, working, and half-way reliable products that make us money" -- and to build a durable pipeline. So leave your educated opinions in the comments. What did you experience moving to Node.js?

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  1. I don't evev know what it is by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. Can't be arsed. Even if I could, by the time I learn it it'll be obsolete & replaced by something with a retarded name like Cunt%% or something.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. Much respect by twistedcubic · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...pretty, working, and half-way reliable products that make us money..."

    Now that's a honest business person!

  3. Re:Uh... by wbr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, still running a Gopher server on AIX. The way god intended. Been looking at PERL 2, but me thinks it is the tower of Babel.

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    Silence is a state of mime.
  4. Re:Have you migrated to qbasic? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Funny

    JS has become the absolute bane of the internet

    JavaScript is a horrible language, as you can see. But PHP is also a horrible language. If you are writing a lot of JS for the client side, then node.js has the advantage that you only need to learn one horrible language.