Introduction
Originally devised to enhance web pages in Netscape 2.0, JavaScript is now faced with being a single-threaded language in a multimedia, multitasking, multicore world. Yet JavaScript has not only persevered since 1995, itâs thrived. One after the other, potential rivals in the browserâFlash, Silverlight, and Java applets, to name a fewâhave come and (more or less) gone.
Meanwhile, when a programmer named Ryan Dahl wanted to build a new framework for event-driven servers, he searched the far reaches of computer science for a language that was both dynamic and single-threaded before realizing that the answer was right in front of him. And so, Node.js was born, and JavaScript became a force to be reckoned with in the server world. ...
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