&gt; ... Ruby was created in 1995, Python in 1991. Node was first released in 2009. That&#x27;s not an entirely fair comparison since, of course, JavaScript was created long before Node, but Node introduced the language to a new environment...<p>Actually, no, it didn&#x27;t.  JavaScript was first introduced &quot;on the server side&quot; about 20 years ago in the Netscape web server[1].<p><pre><code>  We learn from history that we learn nothing
  from history.

  George Bernard Shaw[2]
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