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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by nailer on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @07:27AM (#2045287)
Why is node going to be major? I know it gets a lot of press, but AFAICT it seems to be from front end people who want to do backend programming, or from people who don't realize that there are simple COMET frameworks for other languages (eg, Tornado for Python, I;m sure one exists for Ruby).
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Re:Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python by hasenj on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:19AM (#2045371)
I didn't realize what Node.js was about until I watched this video:

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/05/20/video-dahl/

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