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by alexyoung 5061 days ago
"Can Rails compete with Node.js?"

For the perplexed: Node isn't a web framework.
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FooBarWidget 5061 days ago
It isn't, but in the context of the article I was talking about competing on the ability to support certain I/O use cases, not comparing features.
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mikeryan 5061 days ago
It took about 2 weeks of working with Node and you quickly realize where its place is your stack, and its very much not the same thing I use Rails for. It's also a pretty distinct line that is pretty easy to determine.

I also find any Node/Rails comparison's pretty silly honestly, they're very different tools, and though you can do the same thing with each, I wouldn't.

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batista 5061 days ago
>For the perplexed: Node isn't a web framework.

For the perplexed: it doesn't matter.

Take it to mean "Node+whatever" vs Rails. Or even "raw Node + totally custom js framework on top" vs Rails.

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