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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by agnokapathetic on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:26AM (#2785373)
http://nodejs.org/nodeconf.pdf

With IO Completion Ports, the Windows kernel lends itself more to async server programming than Unix threads, Microsoft has committed to Joyent's port and with many developers working with Windows on their development boxes, even if they later deploy to a Linux environment, a windows port just makes sense.

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Re:First "official" NodeJS build on Windows by hkarthik on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @02:47PM (#2786919)
I shudder at the thought of writing Node apps in Windows only to later deploy them to a Linux environment. Sounds like a debugging nightmare.

Didn't we learn these lessons from the early days of Java when it was "write once, debug everywhere"?

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