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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Does COBOL have any love for Node.js?
 
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Deus Rex
Mar 5, 2005

pigdog posted:

Very easy to create and integrate with JSON/RESTful services, because duh.

Would you mind elaborating on this point? Why is it "duh"?

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Deus Rex
Mar 5, 2005

El Marrow posted:

Because it's a natural fit to have your serverside code natively speak the same language as the services you're drawing or sending data to/from. Duh.

I don't follow: if the language you're talking about is the language the applications behind those services was written in, I'm not sure I see any advantages or natural fits unless you're using some kind of language-specific RPC mechanism. If the language you're talking about is JSON, unless I misunderstand something about the relationship between JSON and Javascript it seems to me that Javascript doesn't offer any particular advantages over other languages in "speaking" JSON.

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Deus Rex
Mar 5, 2005

 This issue is a doozy.

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/7412

I'll quote an excerpt from the best comment:

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This issue is PHP-like in the absurd brokenness of the implementation, the difficulty of doing a simple thing correctly, and the recalcitrance of the maintainers in fixing or even documenting the problem. It's eerily reminiscent in its use of this three-pronged justification:
  1. The problem is acceptable because it stems from the implementation being a thin (or "lo-fi") wrapper around the underlying system calls.
  2. Your program can behave correctly: you must simply magically know about this problem and write a dozen lines of extra code to work around it.
  3. Programs written in this powerful, general-purpose language aren't generally thought of as doing this kind of thing; therefore it needn't be done correctly.
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