NodeJS and Empowering n00bz

1 · isaacs · June 23, 2010, 9:59 p.m.
Something interesting occurred to me today about why I like NodeJS so much, and why I got so into it as soon as I started playing with it. It’s not the fact that it’s fast (it could be a lot slower before it would start to matter), or that I have strong feelings about IO being async (it should be, of course, but I mean, whatever, threads work), or that JavaScript is so great (I like it, but there were other JS platforms out there that were more advanced in a lot of ways). It’s that it was so eas...