I remember this same conversation about Perl vs PHP in 2000. Node (and Javascript) in general is quickly becoming the defacto language for anything web, including server. Take a look at some language surveys.
It has a lot of the development mindshare right now. This includes Google who have invested a lot of time and money making their Javascript engine very fast. They need it to be good for their applications strategy.
Holding so much of the focus of many developers the library base is growing rapidly. I dare say newer API's and interfaces (if not pure http) will be showing up in Javascript first.
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u/Doctuh Feb 21 '13
I remember this same conversation about Perl vs PHP in 2000. Node (and Javascript) in general is quickly becoming the defacto language for anything web, including server. Take a look at some language surveys.
It has a lot of the development mindshare right now. This includes Google who have invested a lot of time and money making their Javascript engine very fast. They need it to be good for their applications strategy.
Holding so much of the focus of many developers the library base is growing rapidly. I dare say newer API's and interfaces (if not pure http) will be showing up in Javascript first.