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Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
Ryan Dahl's first presentation of Node.js at JSConf 2009. He pitches event-driven, non-blocking I/O as the motivation, rather than JavaScript itself.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a classic dev tool pitch with palpable energy, and cites it for why Node was created.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- stri8ted
- Topic
- nodejs origins
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
There is a sort of palpable energy in (Ryan Dahl) node.js original presentation. [VIDEO] edit: +Ryan Dahl
samblr on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?I like the talk by Ryan Dahl, node.js inventor Original Node JS Presentation, 2009, [VIDEO] In 2018 he gave a follow-up presentation "10 things I regret about node", but that presentation is more for experts.
knbknb on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?i also asked this on twitter so just putting some replies here: - Doug Engelbart [LINK] - Twilio [LINK] - Stripe - "7 lines of code" - Netlify - [LINK] - Heroku - [LINK] and git push heroku master - Cloudflare - [LINK] - Node …
swyx on Hacker News · 2022-06
In Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?
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