- Node.js and Web Applications # 30 Nov 2011
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That’s what all the excitement is about. Yes, it’s still much easier to build a RESTful application that talks to a single database in Rails than it is in node.js. That will likely never change, just like Rails isn’t simpler than PHP at quickly displaying a web page from a database. It’s also irrelevant.
What makes a platform or pattern great at dealing with one problem is precisely what makes it terrible at another. The problem has changed and we need something new to solve it.
Don’t know what the heck Node.js is? See Simon Willison’s Evented I/O based web servers explained using bunnies.