Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : esc
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 17:46:39

 es> Java is excellent at what it does, and is still an industry leader in a
 es> lot of places. JavaScript isn't really a competitor or anything, the
 es> intended use case and problems it addresses are completely different. But
 es> yeah, it's always seemed screwy to me that they chose to use the name
 es> "javascript"...alas...

Well, Node.js is pretty popular, even beyond FrontEnd tooling.  I've used it and Deno quite a bit.  It's used a lot with Apollo as a GraphQL server as well as with socketio for rtc stuff.  It's a first class option for AWS Lambda and many similar FaaS runtimes and services.

As to the name, it was a marketting gimick that came from Netscape wanting to piggyback on the popularity of Java at the time.  IIRC, the original name was supposed to be LiveScript, not to be confused with a more recent language using that name.
  
   
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