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"Of all the ways of doing concurrency, callbacks are by far the worst," Why? Working with callbacks on a solo thread has proved to be more performant I/O wise than threads.

"for any other problem anything else will be much better than Node.js, even PHP."

Why?

While it might be true to certain extend (i.e. Node not being the right solution for many cases), this article is just filled with baseless arguments.




The consistency of node's standard lib alone is a good reason to use node instead of PHP.




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