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hello_moto on Feb 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopter...

Aside from async, I don't see a single drop of progress moving from Rails to Node.JS.

ascendant on Feb 24, 2012 [–]

Much smaller memory footprint, faster execution times, consistency of writing your server code and client code in the same language, etc.

You could say all of these things are subjective, but so is the word "progress".

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