[throwaw181ay]

So we know there is a Go version somewhere I wonder why they didn't opensource this instead of rewriting everything to nodejs...

[gfosco]

The backend for running half a million apps doesn't look anything like the backend for running a single app. Open-sourcing the actual Parse stack was not an option, and no one would've put in the effort to actually run the dozens of components involved. I started from scratch because that was the only way.

[HectorRamos]

The hosted parse.com service is meant to support hundreds of thousands of apps. It was not really meant to be self-hosted by individual developers serving a couple of applications.

[bdcravens]

Assuming this is true, probably due to the fact that most apps using Parse are already in Javascript.