Thanks. This largely made me realize most decisions behind node.js were made on-the-fly rather arbitrarily without putting too much thought into it, and help me compare and contrast it with Go. :)
> most decisions behind node.js were made on-the-fly rather arbitrarily without putting too much thought into it
that seemed rather apparent even at the time - what's been more interesting is watching others defend some of these decisions as if there was a lot of thought put in to them, and that they're some example of great architecture.
not specifically ragging on nodejs - I see this a lot in various projects - small/minor decisions compound over time, and even if they were not originally planned/intended to have significance, they have it at some point, and often people who weren't involved in the original decisions think there's a lot more 'there' there behind the original decisions, when, usually, there isn't.
