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Node.js api surface hasn't changed much. It has more todo with frameworks people use and adding 10k dependencies, next trying to update every week to stay on the latest version.

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And Node evolved much later than the other stable frameworks. I was going to use NodeJS in 2014 for a startup, but after evaluating the absolute nightmare of ways you could do async programming in JavaScript, I went with Python and Tornado, which was a callback-free, clean way of programming. It was years ahead of JavaScript in that regard, so you were ahead of the curve if you were not jailed in the JS world.

What boggled me at the time was how JS programmers had no idea that the current at the time async programming in JS was a war zone - they had no other experiences and took it as normal.

I struggled to understand what I was missing, and then I happened to find this post, and it hit pretty much every point I encountered in practice:

https://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/751

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