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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by Pamar on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:34PM (#18963371)
What I mean is that some of the powerful components we can leverage today solve problems that did not exist in 1985, so having these available then would not really help.

I mean: what would you use Node.js for - in 1985 - even assuming you had access to a system to develop and test stuff made with it?

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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by sedachv on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:54PM (#18971131)
> I mean: what would you use Node.js for - in 1985

In 1985, your hypothetical bank would be running VMS, which had asynchronous IO system calls as the default. There was no need to "invent" something like Node.js.

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