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		tannhaeuser on June 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What the Hell Is a Deno? The set of core libraries like express (fka connect) + dependencies is the stdlib. It was developed in early node.js days as part of CommonJS, which was an initiative for a portable/modular server-side JavaScript runtime with many implementations besides node.js (RingoJS, Narwhal, Helma, TeaJs/v8cgi). The existence of a community-driven lib effort, the portable nature of JavaScript, and the existence of choice was the entire reason I even looked into node.js.

jfkebwjsbx on June 4, 2020 [–]

Other languages had all that, plus a better standard library, plus a type system, for years before Node was a thing.

Node got popular because it enabled frontend devs that only knew JavaScript to move easily to backend, not any technical reason.

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