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> I spent thirty minutes trying to convince him that NodeJS runs on servers and I've been a back-end JavaScript developer writing large REST APIs and back-end s
by Eridrus 8y ago
> I spent thirty minutes trying to convince him that NodeJS runs on servers and I've been a back-end JavaScript developer writing large REST APIs and back-end services. He was convinced JavaScript only runs on browsers and I was full of shit.
I mean, when NodeJS first came out, I thought it was a joke too :p
- icebraining 8y agoJS on the server-side is actually pretty old; Netscape implemented it on their web server way back in '95, right after the language was released on their browser.
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd Java had it on its SDK before node as well. The original ASP pages could also be written in JScript.