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		njharman on Nov 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Luvit – Asynchronous I/O for Lua node.js has an awesome architecture? I was hoping the "about" would, if not go into depth, at least explain wtf they thought the awesome parts are? No such luck.

zacharyvoase on Nov 10, 2012 [–]

<conjecture> the biggest unique part of node.js's architecture seems to be libuv, which is an abstraction and portability layer for event-driven I/O: https://github.com/joyent/libuv

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