If one of my developers posted something like this, I would fire them on the spot.
You've got a "lot of legacy C++ code", and it seems like you're just randomly deciding whether or not to port it. You're basing this decision not on measurement, team considerations, or the needs of your project. Instead you're soliciting opinions from random people on the internet on what is a very religious issue.
If you have problems with your code (performance, maintainability, debugging, whatever), then go fix that. Maybe switching to Node is the right thing to do. But you'd be a fool to make that decision based on something someone said on Hacker News.
You've got a "lot of legacy C++ code", and it seems like you're just randomly deciding whether or not to port it. You're basing this decision not on measurement, team considerations, or the needs of your project. Instead you're soliciting opinions from random people on the internet on what is a very religious issue.
If you have problems with your code (performance, maintainability, debugging, whatever), then go fix that. Maybe switching to Node is the right thing to do. But you'd be a fool to make that decision based on something someone said on Hacker News.