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Node is V8 and a standard lib. Node is not an abstraction around http (which is what RoR is).



"Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications."

From nodejs.org


Right, and "fast, scalable network applications" !== "http abstraction layer". Node doesn't even come with an http abstraction, it comes with the standard request/response objects that nearly every standard lib ships with.


Node is an abstraction around libev. Http just happens to be the one source of events.




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