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You could - but V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python, and JS syntax is quite good for I/O. Better than that, a ton of people know JS and the more deve
by ssafejava 13y ago
You could - but V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python, and JS syntax is quite good for I/O. Better than that, a ton of people know JS and the more developers find this accessible, the better.
- w1ntermute 13y ago> V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python Actually, they are compiling to Lua bytecode in this case. > JS syntax is quite good for I/O And you can pass around blocks in Ruby.
- aaronem 13y agoAnd you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.