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A heavy-weight memory-intensive high-level slow language which is the latest "hype", even though severs using Node.JS are notorious for their lag spikes due to random stop-the-world garbage collection.

Whoever the fuck says Node.JS is "lightweight" is retarded. Hello world for C linked to musl commits 4kb of RAM and takes 0ms to run. Hello world with NodeJS 14 commits 34MB of RAM and takes 397ms to run.
Node.JS is a sick old dog. Let's put it out of its misery and get a young puppy named Go.
by Bad C dev February 28, 2021
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May 19 Word of the Day
Voluntarily Celibate.
A person who chooses to be celibate. Can be for any given amount of time, for a short period or for their entire life. Can be for religious reasons or not.

related: incel
-Priests are volcel (or at least they're supposed to be).

-Gary was so upset after the divorce he became volcel for the rest of his life.
by kay_see October 23, 2007
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A new programming framework for JavaScript built on Chrome's V8 JS Engine. Node is a non-blocking I/O language which is efficient and lightweight. Used by Netflix, Discord and a lot more high-level companies. It's becoming the top language for backend APIs & micro-service based infrastructures.
Person 1: Gonna code a bot in Java! Java FTW!
Person 2: Ew, get with the times - use NodeJS bb.
by itsphin April 13, 2017
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