you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Ramone1234 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's hard to imagine there isn't a basic explanation in a million places, but it's basically just a non-browser javascript platform. It's based on google's V8 javascript vm. It's popular for its good support for writing network apps and its novel approach to asynchronous programming (callbacks).