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On 16 February 2009, a GitHub commit was made. By a person who would later turn out to be the creator of two of the most successful, impactful, and standard tech platforms the world has ever seen. Who is he? Let's explore.
The struggle, however, was real. First, he had to give up his addiction towards Abstract Mathematics - some people apparently loved doing maths, a rare breed! Second, he had to find a company which will be willing to fund this research and development for the first few years. With these two figured out after much efforts, came the big third one. Fork!
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Since then, Node.js is being governed by the OpenJS Foundation. Now, the project is in good hands having people like James Snell from Snyk, Michael Dawson from Red Hat, and Matteo Collina formerly from NearForm in its Technical Steering Committee - tirelessly driving success, assessing latest developments in the field, and keeping the legend of Ryan alive!
Since then, Node.js is being governed by the OpenJS Foundation. Now, the project is in good hands having people like James Snell from Snyk, Michael Dawson from Red Hat, and Matteo Collina formerly from NearForm in its Technical Steering Committee - tirelessly driving success, assessing latest developments in the field, and keeping the legend of Ryan alive!
The days were going swift with Node.js and Ryan, until... one day. Golang from Google came across Ryan, and its newer concurrency model to process web requests through goroutines and channels. It made a realization for Ryan: