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Node was created to make scripting fast servers easy. Nothing more, nothing less. Because JS (as implemented in the browser and known by many programmers) didn'

by dsego 13y ago

Node was created to make scripting fast servers easy. Nothing more, nothing less. Because JS (as implemented in the browser and known by many programmers) didn't carry the baggage of blocking IO calls, Ryan thought it would be a good language for an event-loop based server. History of Node.js: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ

catnaroek 13y ago
Fast Web servers. There is absolutely nothing there that I could use to make, say, a fast database server.
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- dsego 13y ago
  yes, fast web servers.