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Nobody was doing async JS before Node, which came long after async I/O was an established paradigm.
by atombender 3y ago
Nobody was doing async JS before Node, which came long after async I/O was an established paradigm.
- munificent 3y agoXMLHttpRequest shipped in 1999. AJAX was coined in 2005. The "A" in "AJAX" is for "asynchronous".
- atombender 3y agoXMLHttpRequest may be async, but it's not an asynchronous programming model.