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Subject: Sane arguments for when you shouldn't use node.js? (no trolls please)
From: John Hamelink <s0l1dsnak3...@gmail.com>
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Following on from the "meta-programming?" thread, and in the face of
the super-trolling ( http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
), I'd like to get to the bottom of the question: when is it not right
to use node.js and why? Also, what significant drawbacks to the
language are there, that are unique to node?

Again, no trolls please - I don't want to start a flamewar, I simply