Does anybody else get a little question mark over their head whenever they read about the "novelty" of being able to use javascript on the server?
Certainly everybody must remember ASP, which let you write all your server-side code in Javascript way back in 1998. You can still do it today, even in ASP.NET MVC.
And just like Node, nobody ever really shared much rendering code between the client and the server using that technology either.
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Does anybody else get a little question mark over their head whenever they read about the "novelty" of being able to use javascript on the server?
Certainly everybody must remember ASP, which let you write all your server-side code in Javascript way back in 1998. You can still do it today, even in ASP.NET MVC.
And just like Node, nobody ever really shared much rendering code between the client and the server using that technology either.
Javascript on the server existed in 1996. Do you remember Netscape "Livewire"?
The big difference is node is event-based...
Yes, but nobody was talking about Javascript and Performance in the same breath. And V8 or even its creator, didn't even exist.