Parallel Computing in Node.js via HPX Addons – Coding

In this article, we will build a Node.js addon that uses HPX to execute certain algorithms. As you might have already seen on my blog, I have written some articles about HPX, a parallelization runtime & framework written in C++. You might also be asking yourself, why on Earth should anyone use HPX inside the Node.js runtime? This is a very reasonable question. Well, the answer is pretty simple: because I wanted to try it out. The reason I wanted to try it out is that I stumbled upon a GitHub repository that uses HPX with Rust. So I thought, I could steal the idea by applying the Principle Of Least Power as defined by Tim Berners-Lee. This, in a way, was inevitable as Atwood’s Law postulates that any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript. All it takes is a mediocre coder with too much free time.