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by zaphar 3586 days ago
That was not one of his suggestions, unless you count stackless python. It was an example (i.e. twisted in python) in support of his point that callback's are a bad way to structure concurrent programming. His suggestions were Erlang and Go which are arguably better approaches in a purely technical dimension to NodeJS.

What his rant misses is that most technical decisions aren't made on purely technical merit for a host of different reasons.

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>His suggestions were Erlang and Go which are arguably better approaches in a purely technical dimension to NodeJS.

I would say that it is based on a subset of the technical dimension. Maybe Erlang and Go might have nicer ways to handle concurrency flows but if it doesn't have a library X to communicate with backend component Y then there is a technical reason not to use it.