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by tptacek 4983 days ago
Python programmers have been doing evented code for almost a decade using Twisted. EventMachine happened later, but then, so did the mainstreaming of Ruby. You realize, don't you, that Tcl has all three of Javascript, Ruby, and Python beat when it comes to evented I/O?

Node does not own evented I/O.

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I agree that Node doe not own evented I/O, my point was more that if you care about concurrency, parallelism, evented io, you should work in communities that care about those things and build tools around them. Ruby as a community cares more about Rails than evented I/O. Node is purely evented I/O, so that's basically ALL they care about. I guess Python is probably more in between.

I didn't mean to say node owns evented I/O, just that their whole community embraces it.