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by oneweekwonder 3103 days ago
> Here are Ruby and Rails measured against Node.js, the popular JavaScript framework.

> Finding the next Rails or Node.js

This is nitpicking, and it looks like you understand the difference. But in these sentences you are comparing a vm+framework(ruby rails) against another vm(node.js).

The thing is there is no rails for node only a bunch of contenders[0].

js gained its traction with humankind putting a vm in your webbrowser on every machine.

[0]: http://nodeframework.com/