emscripten

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Tue Dec 14 09:34:13 PST 2010


Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 12/14/10 9:25 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > Adam Ruppe Wrote:
> >>
> >> Client side scripting sucks. It's garbage. Slow, incompatible, unreliable, and a
> >> piece of junk platform in general - it does very little that's interesting. That's
> >> not even getting into the language itself.
> >
> > It totally sucks, but it does scale better than executing everything server-side.
> 
> Surprisingly, it doesn't. Facebook is reducing its client-side 
> Javascript to a minimum in favor of server-side code. Reason? Speed. You 
> can't control user's OS, browser, and hardware platform, but you can 
> control your own.

I don't think speed and scalability are the same thing.  Everything is far faster server-side, but you pay for that in data center real estate.  The trick is finding the right balance.


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