Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

stri8ted · 234.1K views · 2012-06-08 · 48:32

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Overview

Ryan Dahl's first presentation of Node.js at JSConf 2009. He pitches event-driven, non-blocking I/O as the motivation, rather than JavaScript itself.

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HN recommends it as a classic dev tool pitch with palpable energy, and cites it for why Node was created.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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Web development Tech pioneers & interviews

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samblr · 2016-10 · Strong recommendation
There is a sort of palpable energy in (Ryan Dahl) node.js original presentation. [VIDEO] edit: +Ryan Dahl
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swyx · 2022-06 · Recommendation
i also asked this on twitter so just putting some replies here: - Doug Engelbart [LINK] - Twilio [LINK] - Stripe - "7 lines of code" - Netlify - [LINK] - Heroku - [LINK] and git push heroku master - Cloudflare - [LINK] - Node ( [VIDEO] ) and Deno ( [LINK] ) - Firebase (reportedly) - [LINK] smaller companies/less impactful pitches that i still like - Redux [LINK] - Stackblitz [LINK] - Comm [LINK] - Mongodb [LINK] - Let's Encrypt [LINK] - Figwheel-Clojurescript [LINK] - Svelte [LINK]
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knbknb · 2018-10 · Recommendation
I like the talk by Ryan Dahl, node.js inventor Original Node JS Presentation, 2009, [VIDEO] In 2018 he gave a follow-up presentation "10 things I regret about node", but that presentation is more for experts.
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