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by throwbsidbdk 3486 days ago
I think node is the funniest example. "Yay we can run js on the server now! This is the future!"

But wait, what other language can't you run on the server? I can't think of a popular language in existence before js to take so damn long just to have a web interface. It took js ten years! Even rust has a web server and it just hit 1.0. Oh and node is still single threaded, something horrific for servers that usually have 16+ cores.

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You could run Javascript on the server back in 1996.

Netscape Enterprise Server supported Javascript as a server-side language, similar to VBScript or PHP. They called it Livewire.

Complete lack of understanding of Node