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		rootusrootus on Sept 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Previe... I think you might be missing the distinction in the above post. Node.JS != Javascript.

lemiffe on Sept 27, 2016 [–]

What? Node.JS is Javascript. JS at the end of the name stands for Javascript!

biocomputation on Sept 27, 2016 | [–]

You beat me to it. I was going to write:

Node.JS === Javascript

blitzd on Sept 27, 2016 | | [–]

...except for the whole sync/async (libuv) thing. And the bits they added on top of V8, like Buffers.

Maybe Javascript == Node.JS then?

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