the fuck is nodejs

Where did we go wrong, so that we ended up with using JS for backend programs? No matter what they tell you, javascript is not fucking lisp just because it supports closures (hurrr arcane fp technique i pass funcction as parameter). What's next, a text editor written in CSS?

Javascript is a scripting language, while css is not

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CSS Videogames.
https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/

There is a little sense in using the same/or at least a similar language for client and server, and js is an easy (perhaps the easiest) target for running random clientside scripts on some platform. So that's how it happened probably