One big difference is that Node.js had an easy way to share small libraries between projects almost right from the beginning. Something like NPM is only now sta

One big difference is that Node.js had an easy way to share small libraries between projects almost right from the beginning. Something like NPM is only now starting to appear in PHP, and seems to be slowly breaking projects out of the reinventing-the-wheel mindset. A great example is Drupal using the Symfony2 HTTP foundation (request and response objects, etc) http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/composer_solves_the_php_code-sharing_problem/ http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/composer_solves_the_php_code-shari...