Real-Time is not possible on Node.JS#99
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Because Node.JS is a garbage-collected language with a work-queue. That means there are no guarantees for runtimes, hence no real-time guarantees. Maybe you wanted to use a different meaning here, but the word is just wrong. See for example the definition on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing), which quotes `Ben-Ari, M., "Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming", Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0-13-711821-X. Ch16, Page 164`.
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This heavily depends on how you define "real-time" in your system. In programming sense of the word node may not make real-time possible but node based systems can be "real-time" from more business oriented perspective. The very article you quoted mentions that
If you are fine with business definition of real-time then node can give you a real-time web application. |
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Because Node.JS is a garbage-collected language with a work-queue. That means there are no guarantees for runtimes, hence no real-time guarantees. Maybe you wanted to use a different meaning here, but the word is just wrong.
See for example the definition on Wikipedia, which quotes
Ben-Ari, M., "Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming", Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0-13-711821-X. Ch16, Page 164.