While philosophical debates and stubborn adherence to “standards” tend to drive a wedge between the Java and .Net camps, Node.js is quickly becoming the Switzerland of programming languages.

JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).

Dahl: Node does things a bit differently than other programming platforms. The main thing is that it handles I/O very differently, so it doesn’t allow the user to lock up the program, ever.

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NodeSource, a corporate software development toolkit for the node.js programming language, has raised $3 million in seed financing. Money for the round came from Crosslink Capital and Resolute ...