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A heavy-weight memory-intensive high-level slow language which is the latest "hype", even though severs using Node.JS are notorious for their lag spikes due to random stop-the-world garbage collection.
Whoever the fuck says Node.JS is "lightweight" is retarded. Hello world for C linked to musl commits 4kb of RAM and takes 0ms to run. Hello world with NodeJS 14 commits 34MB of RAM and takes 397ms to run.
Whoever the fuck says Node.JS is "lightweight" is retarded. Hello world for C linked to musl commits 4kb of RAM and takes 0ms to run. Hello world with NodeJS 14 commits 34MB of RAM and takes 397ms to run.
by Bad C dev February 28, 2021
May 19 Word of the Day
Voluntarily Celibate.
A person who chooses to be celibate. Can be for any given amount of time, for a short period or for their entire life. Can be for religious reasons or not.
related: incel
A person who chooses to be celibate. Can be for any given amount of time, for a short period or for their entire life. Can be for religious reasons or not.
related: incel
-Priests are volcel (or at least they're supposed to be).
-Gary was so upset after the divorce he became volcel for the rest of his life.
-Gary was so upset after the divorce he became volcel for the rest of his life.
by kay_see October 23, 2007
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A new programming framework for JavaScript built on Chrome's V8 JS Engine. Node is a non-blocking I/O language which is efficient and lightweight. Used by Netflix, Discord and a lot more high-level companies. It's becoming the top language for backend APIs & micro-service based infrastructures.
by itsphin April 13, 2017