Project Summary
Node is similar in design to and influenced by systems like Ruby's Event Machine or Python's Twisted. Node takes the event model a bit further—it presents the event loop as a language construct instead of as a library. In other systems there is always a blocking call to start the event-loop. Typically one defines behavior through callbacks at the beginning of a script and at the end starts a server through a blocking call like EventMachine::run(). In Node there is no such start-the-event-loop call. Node simply enters the event loop after executing the input script. Node exits the event loop when there are no more callbacks to perform. This behavior is like browser javascript—the event loop is hidden from the user.
In a Nutshell, node.js...
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has a codebase with a long source history
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 479 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 12 days ago
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