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Node.js is not a fad. It represents the first workable JavaScript-based server with mass appeal. The real story is that JavaScript is here to stay. There have b

Node.js is not a fad. It represents the first workable JavaScript-based server with mass appeal. The real story is that JavaScript is here to stay. There have been other server-side JavaScript frameworks in the past, but none of them have taken off like Node.js. If Vert.x wins over the JavaScript crowd, then that's great, because coders will be able to write JavaScript.

batista 14y ago
>Node.js is not a fad. It represents the first workable JavaScript-based server with mass appeal. The real story is that JavaScript is here to stay. Javascript yes. Node.js, not so much. >There have been other server-side JavaScript frameworks in the past, but none of them have taken off like Node.js. Javascript was not a fast language in the past, nor was it much used for anything more than the most basic dynamic html stuff (rollovers etc)...
- ricardobeat 14y ago
  > nor was it much used for anything more than the most basic dynamic html stuff You seem to have missed Netscape Enterprise Server (1994), HaXe, Helma, AppJet, Aptana Jaxer, Narwhal/Jack, EJScript, RingoJS, Flusspferd, and ASP.
  - batista 14y ago
    No, the industry seem to have missed them. None of those were any big success. (With the exception of ASP. But in ASP, Javascript was just one of the languages you could use, and not the most popular one).
- IsaacSchlueter 14y ago
  What do you mean when you say "fad"? Put another way: What evidence could you potentially see that would convince you it's not a fad?
cageface 14y ago
I think it's actually unfortunate that the first popular server-side JS framework is so tied to the async model. I'd be more likely to try it if it weren't.