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I don't think it is. In the words of Bill Clinton: "it's the economy, silly". Economic/social factors trump technical aspects 99% of the time, the 1% being technical revolutions. And Java or C# or Lisp being better than Javascript doesn't fall into the "revolution" category. Ergo Javascript everywhere :)



can run Javascript on the JVM, so I'm wondering what Node has over the JVM


SV hip factor.




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