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Nobody loved node because of callbacks. Node was the only ecosystem where everything was written with concurrency in mind.
by emilsedgh 9y ago
Nobody loved node because of callbacks. Node was the only ecosystem where everything was written with concurrency in mind.
- dozzie 9y ago> Node was the only ecosystem where everything was written with concurrency in mind. Yes, sure, if you ignore all the other programming languages, like Erlang, which is older even than first hacked versions of JavaScript.
- zamber 9y agoJS was drafted in a week. Node is a band aid on top of a tech stack that webdev is stuck with. Node was done with concurrency in mind, JS wasn't. Compare apples to apples: How does Erlang's ecosystem stack up when it comes to concurrency? How does it compare to Node? Do you even care given your prejudices regarding JS?