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coldtea on June 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comparing Node.js with Tcl

>There's a huge difference in terms of features and reliability between node's http module and this

Yeah, but in which software's favor?

TCL has been battle-tested for decades, even in industrial automation...

Now, this particular server might be just some guy's quick project, but Node also started as a ho-hum experiment...

Tobani on June 17, 2015 [–]

> TCL has been battle-tested for decades, even in industrial automation...

Right but I believe the point was that this http implementation was less battle-tested than node's and that if you're willing to strip away features from the node version, it too could outperform node's version in a microbenchmark.

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