Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking. It also makes Chrome essentially worthless to anyone except Google.

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      24 days ago

      Maybe as a whole package, but node.js servers are ubiquitous and have a ton of stakeholders that have nothing to do with web browsers.

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              23 days ago

              The JavaScript (code) engine that powers Chrome is the same JavaScript (code) engine that powers Node servers. Node is used to power a large portion of web applications and internal corporate tools. The Chromium/Node project is under the tight control of Google engineers.