LoRaWAN with NodeJS - why?
chainhead opened this issue · 2 comments
First off, congratulations on building this!! I am sure, many will benefit with this simulator.
Quick question: Did you choose NodeJS because of its event loop and asynchronous programming paradigm? I am curious to know, if the simulator would have benefit with a programming language that did not offer an event loop or asynchronous programming.
Hey, thanks for the kind words!
Regarding NodeJS/TypeScript, there was initially no other reason than being able to piggyback some existing libraries for packet encoding/decoding as well as a packet forwarder that saved me quite some time.
Now, that being said, I found the programming model to be well-aligned with the concepts of a network simulation (e.g simulated devices "emit" fake packets/events), and while I'm sure other programming languages would have allowed to achieve similar results, it may have resulted in a bit more boilerplate code.
I'll be closing this for now. Let me know if you have other questions!