To clarify: building anything in anything is great. I don't want to use Node because it's too young. Re-writing sed/grep in JS is young.
@steveklabnik sed/grep are trivial tools. the_silver_searcher demonstrates the perf wins you can get in C
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@papanikge yeah, ack is comparatively slow
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@bascule@steveklabnik and node is basically low level like c, right?? -
@charliesome@steveklabnik I hear Node is a low-level systems programming environment
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@bascule@steveklabnik I really have to check that one out because sometimes I find grep insanely fast. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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