[nbaksalyar]

    > and here he is 9 years late to the party

Well, is he? He was talking about JavaScript on the server side even before Node.js existed, and now we see that it took off as one of the most popular platforms, surpassing Ruby on Rails.

[cromwellian]

Netscape Enterprise Server was shipping server-side JS in the 90s. I used LiveScript in a project (it could also call into JVM classes). NES was nasty to setup and configure and there were oodles of limitations, but Node.js didn't invent the idea of server side JS, it just made it practical.