Most of the nodejs success stories I've read have taken a serial, blocking system and made it parallel and non-blocking. The wins in this context are hardly surprising, and say little about the value of nodejs specifically.
It's idiomatic in a bunch of languages. There are also good ways to do blocking IO. "We remove the capability to use an entire category of IO" is probably the weakest feature claim of any language out there.
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Most of the nodejs success stories I've read have taken a serial, blocking system and made it parallel and non-blocking. The wins in this context are hardly surprising, and say little about the value of nodejs specifically.
That the latter is idiomatic use of nodejs may itself be of value.
It's idiomatic in a bunch of languages. There are also good ways to do blocking IO. "We remove the capability to use an entire category of IO" is probably the weakest feature claim of any language out there.
Sure. I never made any claim that it unique, or that nodejs is great generally.