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Node.js being based on JavaScript was accidental I believe. What the developer was after was an asynchronous, evented, non-blocking/non-multithreaded server run
by tannhaeuser 10y ago
Node.js being based on JavaScript was accidental I believe. What the developer was after was an asynchronous, evented, non-blocking/non-multithreaded server runtime for game servers and similar apps without Java et al.'s "synchronized" and "volatile" model.
Of course, Node.js is only suited for I/O-scheduled but not CPU-heavy workloads.