Because it was a really bad idea to start using JavaScript outside the browser anyway.
We were doing just fine before node, and this whole rewrite JavaScript into something compiled, and more usable, is the closing of a circle that should never have happened in first place.
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We were doing just fine before node, and this whole rewrite JavaScript into something compiled, and more usable, is the closing of a circle that should never have happened in first place.