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by onewland 6045 days ago
To me, the important part of node.js is that it's using the V8 (http://code.google.com/p/v8/) JavaScript engine which Google has a strong, vested interest in being the fastest dynamic platform around and a lot of really smart programmers to make that happen.

Otherwise, it's a matter of preference. What's the main advantage of PHP/Ruby over Perl?