[cramsdale]

I'm assuming that you're actually talking about Node and not just HTML + JS. Ultimately it wasn't a choice to do one and not the other, it was a choice of which to tackle first (and PHP had some technical advantages which allowed us to move faster). Ultimately we want to surface, or allow others to surface, any runtime in a fully managed way. Yes, Node, Ruby, C# are often discussed (as are many others, including moving Go to GA). We're investing, we'll get there, and this is only the first of many steps.

[salimmadjd]

I don't necessarily mean Node, but serverside javascript. I don't really care for the event notification process of Node. It has its place and for many tasks it probably is the best solution. However for most web apps its probably simpler not to worry about it.