+1 I like node (and ringojs) because it's a cool javascript interpreter with a nice set of libraries for practical use. I can buy the argument that node's sing

+1 I like node (and ringojs) because it's a cool javascript interpreter with a nice set of libraries for practical use. I can buy the argument that node's single thread architecture can make things faster, but not before understanding why. I've googled this quite a lot every now and then since node showed up but noone is willing to explain why, every one just assumes is faster, lighter and easy to scale for some reason. Not doubting the slightest bit, just would like to know why is that so.