[zollercopter]

If one of my developers posted something like this, I would fire them on the spot.

You've got a "lot of legacy C++ code", and it seems like you're just randomly deciding whether or not to port it. You're basing this decision not on measurement, team considerations, or the needs of your project. Instead you're soliciting opinions from random people on the internet on what is a very religious issue.

If you have problems with your code (performance, maintainability, debugging, whatever), then go fix that. Maybe switching to Node is the right thing to do. But you'd be a fool to make that decision based on something someone said on Hacker News.

[option_greek]

Funny, that almost all the programmers I know posted questions at one time or other on stackoverflow or codeproject. Do you mean to say all these guys taking opinions from strangers need to be fired ?

[rpsw]

To be fair, he did ask for "references to good constructive material" rather than just "something someone said on Hacker News". They were looking for sources that discuss the issue, rather than someone on HN to give them the answer straight out.

[cygwin98]

Why be so negative? At least he or his team is taking some initiatives.

[rahoulb]

That's a bit unfair.

The OP uses the word "we" implying some sort of team decision. And asks for references, implying this is still under research.