IMHO NodeJS is not about asynchronous processing - it is about JavaScript on the server.
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Replying to @ewolff
@ewolff Or on the client. In fact, it's about JS outside of the browser.

Jun 25, 2013 · 8:03 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov Node is not the only JS outside browser. There are also a ton of JS Map/Reduce frameworks e.g. in CouchDB or MongoDB.
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@ewolff But you can use Node to build network clients just as well as servers. No need to restrict it.
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