Then Node.js was spawned, turning developers’ heads with its speed. Not only was JavaScript faster on the server than anyone had expected, but it was often faster than Java and other options.

Node.js is generally accepted and understood by both Java and .Net camps, whose developers are comfortable with JavaScript syntax and are able to deploy Node.js on both Unix and Windows ...

It took two node.js engineers a few months to build the necessary software, almost half the time it took the five-man Java team, with the node.js app written in 33 percent fewer lines of code and ...

Running the test suite on production hardware, they concluded that the Node.js app was performing better than the Java one, serving: Double the requests per second vs. the Java application.