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Node is largely a reaction to advances in event multiplexing like kqueue and epoll.

Node is largely a reaction to advances in event multiplexing like kqueue and epoll. It was intended to be a scripting language bolted on top of a single-threaded concurrency model. This design-decision corresponds to the before unseen degree of callback hell that is Node's primary pain point.

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Node is largely a reaction to advances in event multiplexing like kqueue and epoll.

verbin217Jun 14, 2015, 6:12 AM

Node is largely a reaction to advances in event multiplexing like kqueue and epoll. It was intended to be a scripting language bolted on top of a single-threaded concurrency model. This design-decision corresponds to the before unseen degree of callback hell that is Node's primary pain point.

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