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One advantage of node that wasn't mentioned is the ability to share server side and client side code. Avoiding discrepancies in the same form validation written in two different languages can often be more important than performance gains in server applications.


>One advantage of node that wasn't mentioned is the ability to share server side and client side code

You can do that with lots of languages, using one of the langX->javascript compilers.

>Avoiding discrepancies in the same form validation written in two different languages

What form validation are you doing in javascript? I can't actually think of any client side validation that isn't just a regex.




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