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This is exactly what the word popularized means. It doesn't mean invented, it just means exposed it to a large number of people who hadn't previously encountere
by hyperpape 10y ago
This is exactly what the word popularized means. It doesn't mean invented, it just means exposed it to a large number of people who hadn't previously encountered it.
I don't know if you can claim definitively that Node introduced more people to event loops than any other technology, but it certainly is one major popularizer of the idea, and the one that's had the most impact in the past decade.
- davidw 10y agoSo basically people who knew nothing of what had come before, despite it being a fairly widespread technology. I think that's kind of proving the video's point.
- hyperpape 10y agoPeople are constantly learning how to program, and they pick up ideas in different orders from different sources at different times in the history of a discipline. Every idea anyone has ever known was something they didn't know until they were introduced to it. The fact that you knew it first doesn't give you a reason to be snide.