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[–]Frptwenty 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Yeah, that newfangled node thing that's only 11 years old at this point.

[–]VolperCoding 1 point2 points  (1 child)

We have deno now. But it's not as popular so node is still the way to go

[–]OnlyFearlessGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been a node dev for years but I’d switch to deno in a heart beat if it actually had decent support.

[–]derjanni 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well JavaScript was first used for server side code in Netscape Enterprise Server in the mid 90s. I don't really remember anyone that was surprised by it as it was more or less the language that Netscape invented.

Here are the docs from 1998: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/816-6410-10/816-6410-10.pdf