node.js makes the impossible possible

in this thread we post programs that used to require super complicated shit before god gave us javascript

etherpad was a live-updating collaborative text-editor. Basically a better version of google docs/wave. The original was written by some of silicon valley's best programmers using 100k lines of java and scala. The new version was written by random volunteers in only 9k lines of javascript and uses 3% of the memory.


https://github.com/pita/etherpad-lite