alt Hacker NewsThe Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.
People tried to introduce threads to Node.js but there was push-back for the very reasons mentioned in this article and so we never got threads.
The JavaScript languages communities watch, nod, and go back to work.
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hlieberman • today at 8:58 AM
Forget Node.js; _Javascript_ hadn't even been invented yet when Erlang and BEAM first debuted.
leoc • today at 8:07 AM
You may be thinking of some recent round of publicity for BEAM, but BEAM is a bit older than JavaScript.
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xtoilette • today at 8:09 AM
BEAM predates node js
worthless-trash • today at 8:57 AM
I think the author is trying to be clever to parody what was written in tfa.
> The Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.
Work on the BEAM started in the 1990s, over ten years before the first release of Node in 2009.