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Re:From Node.js To Go, Why One Startup Made The Switch by rdtsc on Sunday June 01, 2014 @02:40AM (#7828368)
> Falter said she knew how to write JavaScript and thought she could use that background to learn Node.

Knowing some Javascript, I would run away as fast as possible from the prospect of using it on a server (especially if it comes to using the callback pattern to represent concurrency).

> It was also free [...]

Aren't most development languages for general back-end work? Maybe .net isn't...? I haven't checked. But it seems a bit like they just wanted to add another item to the list.

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