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		dllthomas on Dec 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dyeing the cheese orange – Beware of benchmarks That the latter is idiomatic use of nodejs may itself be of value.

jamesaguilar on Dec 28, 2013 [–]

It's idiomatic in a bunch of languages. There are also good ways to do blocking IO. "We remove the capability to use an entire category of IO" is probably the weakest feature claim of any language out there.

dllthomas on Dec 28, 2013 | [–]

Sure. I never made any claim that it unique, or that nodejs is great generally.

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