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Anon • Edited

Node JS is suitable ... for relatively heavy loads

Given my personal preference of avoiding node ecosystem, I would reach for golang if this was my goal. But if someone strongly prefers dynamic typing and wants to be prepared for heavy load, then node + js might be a strong candidate. I rarely see node + js, it's usually node + ts.

 
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JoelBonetR πŸ₯‡

Using TS is just a preference on development time and it has nothing to do with performance for obvious reasons.

 
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Anon

Understand, I was just observing that node doesn't seem to be a hub for dynamic typing enthusiasts anymore, similar to clojure might be.

 
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JoelBonetR πŸ₯‡

Well, depends on you needs (like always). If you're going to create any lambda (in AWS) or Cloud Function (in GCP) sure you'll use Node for convenience. The same occurs -usually- when working with websockets or specific async APIs which computational complexity makes unpreferable to use a more complex environment such JVM.