Ask HN: Who's the DHH for Node.js?

Ryan Dahl created it at Joyent, and Joyent controlled it at the time. But he left it to other maintainers when he left Joyent.

https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Ryan-Dahl https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ryan-Dahl

TJ Holowaychuk, the creator of Express.js and many, many, many other notable libraries. He left the node community a few years ago. Still a total legend though!

I think you may see him coming back soon: https://github.com/koajs/koajs.com

Probably Douglas Crockford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford), while not node specific he was one of the biggest people responsible for the popularity of javascript.

Dumb question, but what does DHH stand for?

David Heinemeier Hansson

Okay, I thought maybe it was an ackronym like BDFL