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by dmurray 1561 days ago
> 2. Node.js is not a language. JavaScript is a language,

This criticism is the wrong way around. All of the author's "languages" are actually language implementations like NodeJS. You can tell because he produced the results by running the code, rather than by reading a spec.
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paradite 1561 days ago
Yes you are right about the differences.

So what I'm proposing is to put JavaScript in the language column (like other languages such as Java) and note the usage of Node.js as the implementation in the second column together with version (similar to Java -> openjdk 11.0.11 2021-04-20).

Would that make sense?

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dmurray 1561 days ago
That would certainly make sense, but the author hasn't followed that pattern consistently so far - e.g. the row for C doesn't list the compiler or architecture.
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