The purpose of Asm.js is to only touch JS with a 10-feet pole. Node.js is just an implementation of the Reactor pattern with some package management. Google a

The purpose of Asm.js is to only touch JS with a 10-feet pole. Node.js is just an implementation of the Reactor pattern with some package management. Google are smart people, they understand that dynamic weakly typed language is a dead end, hence Dart for client and Go for server.