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The days of me spinning up Python Flask apps are numbered. Yes, native Node.js is that good.

Python's community support for data science is great, and it, by far, has the most elegant syntax for this very purpose.

That said, serving a web application written in Python (using ONLY native modules) becomes sub-optimal beyond a certain level of complexity.

One question I like to ask myself when deciding which (high-level) language to code in is: how many lines of code would it take to implement this functionality using only native modules/in-built features of that language?

For high-level languages, all other factors are trivial.

So far, I had been using Flask or Bottle, which—TBH—have a fairly elegant syntax for RESTful APIs. But the moment I want to play around with WebSockets and other complications, the elegance ends.

I do expect to be writing a lot of native Node.js in the coming year.

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