Re:Ask HN: Why do you think Node.js is catching on?
by devmonk on Thursday September 02, 2010 @01:50PM
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I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen:
1. It's event-driven and javascript.
2. It already is.
3. It shouldn't be a turf war. It isn't for everything. But, I'd rather write in javascript than erlang, scala, haskell, etc. and I'm sure others would be in the same boat.
4. Heroku, etc. are starting to host, so it kind of already is. Any fast, simple web-based service could be a good candidate for node.js.
1. It's event-driven and javascript.
2. It already is.
3. It shouldn't be a turf war. It isn't for everything. But, I'd rather write in javascript than erlang, scala, haskell, etc. and I'm sure others would be in the same boat.
4. Heroku, etc. are starting to host, so it kind of already is. Any fast, simple web-based service could be a good candidate for node.js.
See: http://debuggable.com/posts/understanding-node-js:4bd98440-4...