IMHO NodeJS is not about asynchronous processing - it is about JavaScript on the server.

@ewolff Or on the client. In fact, it's about JS outside of the browser.

@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.

@ewolff But you can use Node to build network clients just as well as servers. No need to restrict it.

@stilkov I guess my point was: people are like "Node.js = high scalability" while more important is "Node = JS on the server"

@ewolff I see. My view is it makes async/evented I/O a tolerable option for mere mortals; that's the more important point to me

@stilkov Which? BTW async I/O is also an option e.g. with #vertx