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"My prediction is much stronger than saying Go will be as popular as Ruby, Python, or Node."

Was anybody else thrown off by this? I thought it was weird to throw Node in there considering Go, Ruby, and Python are languages.

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Most people say Node as to not confuse client-side JavaScript. e.g: Saying Go will be as popular as JavaScript would be unreasonable, saying Go will be as popular as JavaScript on the server is reasonable.

Ah, thank you. That definitely makes more sense.

I think it fits in this context. JavaScript alone has no standard library or execution environment. Unlike the other languages listed there.

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