node.js breaks JavaScript stigmas

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

Who would think that after so much momentum in JavaScript over the last five years, with what could safely be called its rediscovery, that language still had one more trick up its sleeve? After adding life to the client side of web applications, JavaScript now marches on, full steam, to the server.

Meet node.js, a new application development platform that is teaching us a new way of writing server code. Not only it uses an uncommon server side language (JavaScript) but it also proposes a mind shift in the way the code is written and executed, achieving a lot of scalability through asynchrony, while staying fluid and readable.

Brian Mavity is a long time member or our user group and has been developing with node.js for what could be called forever given how recent this technology is.

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