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00:00So Node is a server-side JS platform.
00:04It's built on Google's V8.
00:09In 2009, like, interactive websites and stuff
00:13was basically non-existent.
00:16Node sort of came out of left field a little bit
00:19in terms of that space.
00:21I think Ryan Dahl kind of picked JavaScript
00:24not because he was particularly attached to JavaScript.
00:26It just was a good fit.
00:28He just had this idea, like, oh, shit, JavaScript.
00:31JavaScript.
00:32It was, like, so perfectly clear at that moment
00:34that, like, oh, my God, this is the link.
00:37That is one of, like, the real magics of Node.js.
00:41It gives you all these, like, really powerful capabilities
00:44that, like, historically were maybe reserved
00:46for, like, systems programmers.
00:48I took Node.js, and that actually allowed us
00:50to get it done, like, overnight.
00:52And, yeah, at that point, I was hooked.
00:53I knew that was gonna be the future of programming.
00:56I knew I was on to something, but could not continue
00:59doing this out of my own pocket, right?
01:01I needed somebody to pay for this.
01:02And Joyent basically had the best proposition.
01:05I have a potentially impertinent question.
01:07I read the trademark policy, and I was really curious to know
01:09is there gonna be some organization
01:10that's gonna sort of shepherd that out in the future?
01:14Um, no.
01:15I think Joyent's going to keep shepherding this.
01:19Every successful open-source project has conflict,
01:23some more than others, but everyone does.
01:25There's so much fucking drama, right?
01:27Especially around, like, this one thing in this one period.
01:30We didn't think that the switching cost
01:31would actually get as difficult as it would become.