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Indeed. In my mind much of the value of javascript is for rapid protoyping and for allowing those who enjoy JS (I do not [1]), to build medium performance tier applications.

What strikes me as odd is people wanting to write things that traditionally are written in C/C++ and more recently also in Go/Rust/Java/D in JS. The reason these arguably slower, in development speed, languages are used for things like DBs is that they are write once re-use thousands of times, and this use case warrants being slightly lower level and less rapid in development and gaining performance and I would argue maintainability.

[1] Note: In case you are wondering why I dislike JS: 1. JS's extensive use of spaghetti cough I mean callbacks 2. Higher effort needed to use compute resources for a single task in a parallel fashion compared to other langs 3. I dislike dynamically typed languages (I belive they are harder to maintain) 4. Performance: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

The goal in this particular case is to have all your code in a single language for easy distribution. If you write and distribute a Node.js webapp or Node Webkit app (which I guess you don't since you don't like JS!), needing your users to also install whichever DB you use is a pain for them (esp. for desktop apps with Node Webkit, users may not be developers). That's the reason I built this.

First off, louischatriot kudos to you for building this. Building embedded DB's is fun and worthwhile. The fact I'm not a JS fan doesn't diminish that value to me.

While I understand that packaging motivation; it seems to me to be less relevant due to msi/rpm/deb packages. Those technologies make it pretty easy to package an application built with heterogeneous components.

Thanks :)

It's true that it's easy to package such applications for unix systems, but it's much harder on Windows. What makes Node Webkit great is the fact that it's cross-platform with very little pain, and in that case having the DB in the JS code makes packaging a breeze.

> What strikes me as odd is people wanting to write things that traditionally written in C/C++

I should note I know people who make this choice. They can write these things in C, and in the past, they have. But they are choosing Node.js. So it's not just a "what you know" affect.

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