node.js is the new java

it greatly improves on it's predecessors
familiar syntax
it's designed to be practical, to the chagrin of CS purists
next-generation of applications being built (hadoop, palantir, runsecape :  asana, meteor)

>>3
>Rather annoying gotcha in array constructor.
Only PHP ``programmers'' call the constructor by its name, everybody else uses [].
>has LexicalScoping
and gets it right. u mad?
>Every script is executed in a single global namespace that is accessible in browsers with the window object.
Just wrong. Is that copied from c2, I thought they knew their Closures?

But yeah the type system is fucked up.