Re:Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
by peterbraden on Thursday August 31, 2017 @12:50PM
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While I agree that non-blocking isn't a panacea, I think that your attitude that it was an unnecessary experiment is a little dismissive.
The fact is that green threads aren't a panacea either, and exploring the callback based pattern led to some really interesting development, evidenced by the explosion of javascript on the server .
At the time that node took off, a huge amount of server code was python with the GIL, and there needed to be something to shake up the status quo.
The fact is that green threads aren't a panacea either, and exploring the callback based pattern led to some really interesting development, evidenced by the explosion of javascript on the server .
At the time that node took off, a huge amount of server code was python with the GIL, and there needed to be something to shake up the status quo.